Mara Bernath and Hugo Miller report: A former UBS Group AG employee, who fled the country rather than face trial, was found guilty of money laundering by a Swiss court over allegations of the theft and sale of client data to German tax authorities. Rene S., as Bloomberg has identified him, was sentenced by a…
Category: Non-U.S.
South Africans’ airtime and data stolen through malicious smartphone app
Jamie McKane reports: Mobile technology company Upstream announced earlier this month that it had detected a suspicious weather forecast application which was pre-installed on Alcatel smartphones. The company’s security platform, Secure-D, detected suspicious activity initiated by this application across multiple countries – most notably in Brazil and Malaysia, although South Africa was also affected. The…
Bank Worker Forced by Darknet Criminals to Make Fraudulent Transfers
Bruno writes: A bank employee in Scotland stole £75,000 from bank customers after involving himself with a crime gang from a dark web forum. Dayne Lynn, a 22-year-old from North Ayrshire, became interested in the dark web after watching a Netflix documentary, presumably Dark Net. He decided to see with his own eyes if what…
PH: Cebuana Lhuillier reveals data breach, tells clients to secure accounts
Katrina Domingo reports: Cebuana Lhuillier on Saturday said one of its servers fell victim to data breach incidents that may have compromised personal information of its customers. Among the data that may have been “exposed” were clients’ names, birth dates, email addresses, mobile numbers and in some cases, income information, Cebuana Lhuillier told its clients…
Virus affecting IT system at Health Sciences North impacting health care across the region
Update: The hospital later issued a statement indicating that some elective surgeries and appointments were being rescheduled. As reported on Sudbury.com: Certain elective procedures and surgeries in the next 24-48 hours may be rescheduled. Patients are in the process of being rescheduled for treatement later this week and into the weekend. Those patients impacted will be…
Ca: Woman says childhood sexual trauma details leaked in privacy breach
Jack Julian reports on a truly horrific leak: A Dartmouth, N.S., woman whose personal information was exposed in the province’s worst-ever privacy breach says the experience has left her angry and hurt. “I felt violated,” the woman said. CBC News is shielding the woman’s identity because the files leaked by the province’s online freedom of information portal…