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…
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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…
NL: Hospital reprimands 85 staff for peeking at celebrity’s medical files
DutchNews.nl reports: The Haga hospital in The Hague has given 85 members of staff an official warning for looking at the medical files of a television celebrity who was hospitalised after a suicide attempt. Samantha de Jong, better known as Barbie, was admitted to hospital in January after trying to kill herself. She had hardly…
NZ: Vector shuts down app after privacy breach
RNZ reports: The Vector power company has shut down its outage app after thousands of customers unwittingly had their data shared. The information has been available due to a vulnerability on its outage app. The app is used so customers can report and be informed about power outages. Vector chief digital officer Nikhil Ravishankar said…
Careem knew – or should have known – that they had a serious problem last year: researcher
Mark Sutton has some follow-up commentary on the Careem breach reported on this site yesterday: Gregg Petersen of Veeam Software said that not alerting customers to the breach for so long “isn’t acceptable”, and that organisations need to work faster to maintain the trust of their customers. Jordanian cybersecurity expert Raed Nesheiwat also said that…