Paul Karp reports: Australians’ Medicare details are still being illegally offered for sale on the darknet, almost two years after Guardian Australia revealed the serious privacy breach. Screenshots of the Empire Market, provided to Guardian Australia, show the vendor Medicare Machine has rebranded as Medicare Madness, offering Medicare details for $US21. Read more on Guardian…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK hacking powers can be challenged in court, judge rules
Charlie Osborne reports: A five-year court battle in the United Kingdom has come to an end with the UK Supreme Court ruling that the UK’s spy agencies and their hacking activities can be made subject to court challenges. On Wednesday, the court ruled that the GCHQ’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is subject to judicial review…
Massive Data Breach Exposes Russian Officials’ Passports – Reports
The Moscow Times is reporting: Hundreds of thousands of Russians, including former government officials, have had their passport data posted online in the country’s latest massive data leak, the RBC news website cited new research as saying Wednesday. The breach of at least eight government websites, analyzed by privacy expert Ivan Begtin, exposed the passport…
Bank customers’ personal data sold to credit card salespeople: Kompas investigation
The Jakarta Post reports: A network of credit card salespeople and bank employees have been trading the personal information of bank customers and credit card holders with each other in an effort to make quicker sales, as reported by Kompas daily in a recent investigation. Personal information sold by the salespeople comprised a customer’s name,…
Hackers access data from more than 460,000 accounts at Uniqlo’s online store
Eustance Huang reports: Fast Retailing, the Japanese company behind the Uniqlo retail chain, announced Monday that the data of more than 460,000 customers on its online shopping sites were accessed by hackers from April 23 to May 10. In a statement released on its website, Fast Retailing said: “It was confirmed on May 10, 2019…
1.5 Million Mobile Users’ Card & Information Exposed
Roy Urrico reports: Security researchers discovered an exposed Elasticsearch server containing up to 1.5 million Freedom Mobile users’ personal data, passwordless, and including unencrypted credit card and CVV numbers, expiration dates and verification numbers. The five million exposed customer data logs belonged to Freedom Mobile, Canada’s fourth wireless telecommunications provider. The files, stored in plaintext,…