Bojan Stojkovski reports: North Macedonia’s officials are trying to persuade the country that after hackers recently leaked dozens of email addresses and passwords from staffers in public institutions, the situation is under control. But, as they did so, some of the key pages of Skopje’s main local government’s website could not be reached since Thursday – in…
Category: Non-U.S.
Identities of Northern Ireland abuse survivors exposed in email gaffe
The breach described in the post is already one of the worst breaches of 2020 in my opinion. It’s 2020 and yet we are still seeing privacy breaches involving very sensitive data due to an email gaffe. From media coverage, it is likely that a newsletter that was sent out put recipients’ email addresses in…
A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With access to this…
Twitter and WhatsApp could face EU data privacy sanctions
The National reports: Twitter and Facebook’s WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe’s leading privacy watchdog for US tech giants edges closer to delivering its first major sanctions under the region’s tough data-protection rules. The Irish Data Protection Commission said on May 22 that it finalised a draft decision linked to a data breach…
Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
Channel News Asia reports: JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters’ private information on a hacker website along with a threat to release of the data of about 200 million people, the agency said on Friday (May 22). The electoral data from the world’s fourth most-populous nation was posted anonymously…