Frédéric Tomesco reports: More than 2.9 million Desjardins Group members have had their personal information compromised in a data breach targeting Canada’s biggest credit union. The incident stems from “unauthorized and illegal use of internal data” by an employee who has since been fired, Desjardins said Thursday in a statement. Computer systems were not breached,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Bithumb Hit with Data Leak Charges, Denies Link to Hack
Tim Alper reports: South Korea’s prosecution authorities have indicted Bithumb, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, accusing the platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers. However, the company claims that the leak – which prosecutors say occurred in 2017 – and a hack worth some USD 6 million that…
AU: Specsavers says Qld customers’ private medical information may have been compromised
Sarah Jane Bell and Ross Kay report that an undisclosed numbers of Specsavers customers have had their personal and medical information stolen: “Contents may include your name, date of birth, address, phone number, email address, clinical records of your optometry tests, and Medicare details,” the email read. How the information was compromised is still being…
Email gaffes are still a thing. Why? HIV patients hit by NHS Highland email privacy breach
BBC reports: The email addresses of almost 40 people who have HIV have been made public by mistake. It is understood the 37 patients in the Highlands were able to see their own and the others people’s addresses in an email from NHS Highland. Read more on BBC.
Confidential data of New York company breached in Mumbai
Somendranath Sharma reports: Confidential data entrusted to a Bhayandar-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company by a New York-based company was compromised recently. This has led to a police investigation, and the corporate espionage angle is also being probed. The BPO company registered an FIR stating that email addresses of the New York-based debt recovery company,…
Parliament chiefs investigate claims its website was hacked amid fears of confidential data breach
Matt Dathan reports: The site containing bills currently before Parliament was showing private folders not meant for publication. One Twitter user said they had found passwords had leaked online too. A Parliamentary spokesman said it was looking into the reports but said it had not found any evidence that confidential parliamentary data had been breached….