Tom Diacono reports: Journalist-blogger Manuel Delia has warned his blog is being targeted by Ukrainian hackers in what he described as one of the most vicious cyber-attacks in Maltese history. “The storm has been raging for most of this week and every effort of the technical team to counter the attack is met by a…
Category: Non-U.S.
Actor Advertises Japanese PII on Chinese Underground
Kelly Sheridan reports: A dataset containing more than 200 million lines of Japanese personally identifiable information (PII) has been found on the Chinese underground market, researchers report. It’s believed the data is authentic and was exfiltrated from multiple Japanese website databases. Experts at FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence first noticed the actor advertising the dataset in December…
Hospital staff disciplined after Ed Sheeran data breach
Wil Crisp reports: One member of hospital staff has been sacked and another has been given a written warning for accessing Ed Sheeran’s personal details without authorisation, it has emerged. The singer was admitted to Ipswich Hospital on October 16 last year. Ipswich hospital said both staff members “accessed patient information without legitimate or clinical…
UK: Crown Prosecution Service fined £325,000 after losing victim interview videos
How many monetary penalties will it take before the Crown Prosecution Service gets its data protection act together and does a reasonable job of protecting victim-related information?This is the second monetary penalty they’ve been hit with in the past few years: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO after they…
Ontario PC candidate resigns after private 407 freeway confirms ‘internal theft’ of data on 60,000 customers
Tom Blackwell reports: An employee of Ontario’s 407 private freeway quit suddenly Wednesday as a Progressive Conservative candidate in next month’s election, barely an hour after the highway confirmed that information on 60,000 customers had been leaked through an “internal theft.” Simmer Sandhu, the candidate for Brampton East, said in an online statement that he…
CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer
CBC News reports on a CBC breach: The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment. “An intruder recently broke into a secure area of CBC/Radio-Canada, stealing a piece of computer…