Jill Shen reports: Data thieves stole the personal information of nearly 5 million people from an unconfirmed number of Chinese online ticket reservation platforms, according to Beijing police, who arrested a suspect in the case. According to media reports, China Railway’s (CR) official online booking platform 12306 suffered a massive data breach, with information later being sold…
Category: Non-U.S.
Japan’s government to urge infrastructure data be kept on servers in Japan
I’m surprised that they have to ask and haven’t just required this by law already — and that applies not just to Japan but to all countries. It doesn’t have to be an alliance against China motivating the move to keep critical data on servers located within the country. Or am I missing something here…
AU: Data breach sees Victorian Government employees’ details stolen
ABC News reports: The work details of 30,000 Victorian public servants have been stolen in a data breach, after part of the Victorian Government directory was downloaded by an unknown party. Key points:Government referred the data breach to police for investigationCyber security expert says hack could be used for more targeted attackGovernment employees told their…
So this didn’t work, either…
Thousands of kids’ names, grades, and their parents’ names and email addresses exposed but they do not respond to notifications via email or their site. I received an autoresponse that they’d get back to me soon. That was on August 5. And then again on August 12 when I tried again. So then I tried…
UK: Man finds confidential police reports in the road
Robert Sutcliffe reports: The Information Commissioner is investigating after a cache of confidential police information was discovered by a member of the public in Holmfirth. West Yorkshire Police say they are also looking into the circumstances of how around 50 items were found flapping around on the morning of Saturday, December 22. […] “I began…
Brazilian bank Inter pays fine over customer data leak
Angelica Mari reports: Brazilian bank Inter has achieved a settlement over a major security flaw that leaked data of nearly 20 thousand account holders earlier this year. Under the conclusion for the case, announced by Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) on December 18, the bank will pay 1.5 million reais ($382,000) as a means to…