From the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office: Bupa Insurance Services Limited (Bupa) has been fined £175,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to have effective security measures in place to protect customers’ personal information. Between 6 January and 11 March 2017, a Bupa employee was able to extract the personal information of 547,000 Bupa…
Category: Non-U.S.
Japan Gov’t Outraged by $60m Crypto Hack of Zaif, Regrets Lack of Suspension
CCN reports: Earlier this month, major Japanese crypto exchange Zaif was hacked, losing $60 million worth of crypto in user funds. The Financial Services Agency (FSA), the main financial watchdog of Japan, has stated that it regrets allowing Zaif to continue its operation after the exchange was given two warnings to drastically improve its system….
Security researcher fined for hacking hotel Wi-Fi and putting passwords on the internet
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Singapore authorities have fined a Chinese security researcher with SGD$5,000 (USD$3,600) for hacking into a local hotel’s Wi-Fi system without authorization and then publishing a blog post about it, revealing passwords for the hotel’s internal network. The incident took place at the end of August, this year, when Zheng Dutao, 23, of…
Cash, hard drive, data stolen from DLF1 office, cops suspect insider
HT reports: Burglars broke into the office of a private consultancy company in DLF Phase 1 and allegedly decamped with Rs 4.5 lakh cash, $2,000, silver idols, two Mont Blanc collectible pens, four hard drives, company data, several personal documents and digital signatures of company staffers, police said Thursday. According to police, the incident could…
B.C. privacy officials look into data breach involving bankrupt computer retailer
Sunny Dhillon reports: Privacy officials in B.C. and Ottawa are looking into a reported data breach involving former Canadian retailer NCIX, with millions of records – including customer names, addresses, phone numbers and payment information – said to have been made available through a Craigslist post. Travis Doering, who runs a small cybersecurity firm in…
SingHealth data breach reveals several ‘inadequate’ security measures
Eileen Yu reports: Investigation into Singapore’s most severe cybersecurity breach has uncovered several poor security practices, including the use of weak administrative passwords and unpatched workstations. The findings were revealed on the first day of hearings led by the Committee of Inquiry (COI), a team set up to probe a July 2018 security breach that…