Paul Farrell reports: The Commonwealth Bank lost the personal financial histories of 12 million customers, and chose not to reveal the breach to consumers, in one of the largest financial services privacy breaches ever to occur in Australia. BuzzFeed News can reveal that the nation’s largest bank lost the banking statements for customers from 2004…
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Video of the moment ‘Courvoisier’ was captured on train
Richard Spillett reports: This is the moment computer hacker dubbed ‘Courvoisier’ was arrested for carrying out cyber attacks on some of Britain’s top companies before selling customers’ data on the dark web. Police seized £500,000 in Bitcoin from Grant West after discovering he had obtained the personal data of millions of people and the credit…
Korean Overwatch Hackers Arrested, Hit With $10,000 Fine
Nathan Grayson reports: South Korea’s new law that takes aim at those who hack online games in order to cheat at them, which went into effect last June, has hackers in hot water. Earlier this year, 13 Overwatch offenders were arrested, and now two have received their sentences. According to a post from Blizzard Korea—which…
EPFO slams Aadhaar data theft reports on social media
Sunil Dhawan reports: There was news doing the rounds earlier on in the day that Aadhaar data of subscribers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has been stolen by hackers. On social media, there was secret letter alegedly written by VP Joy, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner, on March 23 confirming that such a…
GoAir sues former MD over data theft
Budget airline GoAir has filed a suit against its former CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, accusing him of data theft. Prock-Schauer, who joined GoAir rival IndiGo as its Chief Operating Officer starting February 1, was sued by GoAir in the Bombay High Court on February 13. The next hearing is expected in June. The court documents show…
Thai police seize Lazarus Group server
Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Police in Thailand have seized a computer server operated by a notorious hacker group from North Korea. The group affected has been blamed for the infamous Sony Pictures hack in 2014. Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team (ThaiCERT) announced that it took control of the equipment that the security firm McAfee had linked to Hidden…