i24News reports: Iran has foiled a massive cyber-attack on its “electronic infrastructure”, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on Wednesday. Going into little detail on what exactly was targeted, he said that the exact scale of the attack was yet being established. Read more on i24News. This is all so highly politicized…
Category: Non-U.S.
455,000 Turkish card details put up for sale, web skimmers suspected
Catalin CImpanu reports: Details for more than 455,000 Turkish payment cards are currently being sold online, ZDNet has learned today. The card dump was put up for sale on Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding shop, security researchers at Group-IB told ZDNet. Read more on ZDNet.
Biggest data leaks of 2019 that hit Indians
Prabhjote Gill provides a recap of some of the biggest breaches and data leaks affecting Indian residents in 2019. You can read her report on Business Insider. It’s a by-the-numbers type of analysis, but it omits one incident that has numbers higher than one of the ones on their list. The 1to1Help.net leak was not…
Update: Desjardins says data breach also affects 1.8-million credit cardholders
Frédéric Tomesco reports: The privacy breach at Mouvement Desjardins now extends to credit cardholders. About 1.8-million cardholders who are not Desjardins members may have had their personal information compromised, chief executive officer Guy Cormier said Tuesday. The rogue employee at the centre of the leak — who has since been fired — had access to banking details…
Hairmyres Hospital creep facing jail over data protection breach
East Kilbride News reports: A Hairmyres Hospital worker chatted up patients after breaching data protection rules to get contact details from their medical records. Andrew Stewart had access to patient files at two different medical facilities, and allegedly misused his access privileges to obtain contact data on female patients whom he would then contact. He…
How can we screw up incident response? Let me count the ways — Monday UK Edition
This week, DataBreaches.net was reminded yet again of the risks of trying to alert an entity to a breach. This time, it was not me who was threatened or any of the whitehat researchers I know. This week, it was a citizen who found patient records on the street in his town and undertook to…