Rachel England reports: Facebook is coughing up for another fine. This time the social network is handing over CAD$9 million (US$6.5 million / £5.3 million) to Canada as part of a settlement over the way it handled users’ personal information between August 2012 and June 2018. According to Canada’s independent Competition Bureau, Facebook “made false or misleading claims…
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EasyJet hacked: data breach affects 9 million customers
Lawrence Abrams reports: EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details were also accessed by the attackers. In a data breach notification disclosed today, EasyJet states that they have suffered…
Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’
Matt Mathers reports: E-mail addresses of 300 contact tracers have been shared accidentally by Serco in what could be a breach of data protection rules. The government is using the outsourcing firm to help with its tracing strategy aimed at monitoring Covid-19 cases. The company has been training people to track cases of coronavirus in the UK and has so far…
Tusla fined €75,000 for three GDPR violations
Luke Irwin reports: Tusla, Ireland’s child and family agency, has been fined €75,000 for three breaches of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It was found to have disclosed the personal information of children to unauthorised parties on three occasions. Read more on IT Governance.
Netfilim Ransomware Operators Leak Massive Data From a Global Logistic Group
Anriban Roy reports: The Netfilim ransomware operators have leaked the first installment of data from a massive 200 GB worth data of the global logistics company Toll Group. The operators have hacked the Toll network via its ransomware at the beginning of this month and breached a massive volume of data before encrypting the Toll…
Japan suspects missile data leak in Mitsubishi cyberattack
Mari Yamaguchi of AP reports: Japan is investigating a possible leak of data including details of a prototype missile in a massive cyberattack earlier this year on Mitsubishi Electric Corp., officials said Wednesday. The suspected leak involves sensitive information about a prototype of a cutting-edge high speed gliding missile intended for deployment for the defense…