Wolfie Zhao reports: On Wednesday, roughly 35 billion Korean won (around $31 million) in cryptocurrency was stolen by hackers from the South Korea-based exchange Bithumb. Although the breach may not be as severe as the $530 million hack of the Coincheck exchange earlier this year, the fact that Bithumb now ranks as the sixth biggest…
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AU: University of New South Wales loses data after IBM storage failure
Julian Bajkowski reports: UNSW students are facing the prospect that some information saved to the university’s online storage has been lost for good after a 16 hour-long outage this month blamed on IBM. “Regrettably, some students may have lost some data in the outage,” UNSW said in a statement to students. The statement advised that…
Flightradar24 suffers security breach
Ry Crozier reports: Popular flight tracking site Flightradar24 has suffered a security breach that “may” have compromised the email addresses and hashed passwords of “a small subset” of users. Users began receiving emails overnight asking them to reset their passwords, and the company later confirmed in multiple forums the emails were genuine. Read more on…
Five massive data breaches affecting South Africans
How many of these didn’t you know about already? Tehillah Niselow reports on five big breaches affecting South Africans: Liberty (ZA) email hack ViewFines Driver License Details Facebook Scandal Master Deed’s data breach “biggest” digital security threat in SA Ster-Kinekor’s database compromised Don’t recognize some of them? Read the article on FIN24 to start to get…
Information Update 19 June 2018 on PageUp Incident
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and IDCARE have released a joint statement: 18 June 2018 On Friday 1 June 2018 PageUp Limited, an online recruitment services organisation, notified their customers about a data incident in relation to the integrity of their systems – proactively informing of…
Asylum seeker spreadsheet data blurt: UK Home Office loses appeal to limit claimants
Rebecca Hill reports: The British Home Office’s bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal. Rather than simply publishing overall statistics on the family returns process – the system by which…