The South China Morning Post reported: (Sept 6): The open-access website of the HKEX was hacked yesterday, the second such cyberattack since August 2011. An unrelated software bug in the vendor-supplied trading platform, which forced the exchange to suspend derivatives trading yesterday, has been isolated and fixed. Read more on TheEDGE Markets.
Category: Non-U.S.
Belarusian police shut down notorious hacking forum
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Belarusian authorities have seized the servers of a notorious hacking forum that served as a meeting place for malware authors, hackers, spammers, botnet operators, and other cyber-criminals, the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a press release. Named XakFor, the forum launched in 2012 and targeted the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. It…
DK-Lok data breach exposes global enterprise client data, internal emails
Charlie Osborne reports: Perhaps, one day, the continual stream of data leaks and cybersecurity breaches stemming from open databases will make organizations sit up, take notice, check their IT infrastructure, and resolve any security problems they find. Today is not that day it seems for DK-Lok, the latest entry in a long list of companies…
15 Chinese Arrested for Bribing Internet Café Administrators to Mine Crypto
Vincent He reports: Police in Henyang, a city of south-central China’s Hunan Province, has arrested fifteen men suspected of stealing electricity from Internet café to mine cryptocurrencies, according to a report by local media. During the past four months from June 2017 to July 2019, the cryptocurrencies they stole had been sold amounting to over hundred million yuan…
AU: Breach notification rules for new government data scheme, but no consent for sharing
Rohan Pearce reports: New legislation that will enable data collected by public sector agencies to be more easily shared is expected to be accompanied by new rules for data breach notifications, a discussion paper released today by the government said. The government in May 2018 said it would introduce a new data sharing and release…
Teletext Data Breach Exposes Over 200,000 Customer Phone Call Recordings
Conor Reynolds reports: Package Holiday firm Truly Travels exposed over 200,000 customer phone call recordings and data files on a publicly accessible server. Over 530,000 data files were discovered in an unsecured Amazon Web Services server. Of these files 212,000 were audio files that held recordings of Teletext customers who had contacted the firms India-based…