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20 hackers arrested in EUR 1 million bank phishing scam

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

A two-year long cybercrime investigation between the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with the support of Europol, its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Eurojust, has led to the arrest of 20 suspects in a series of coordinated raids on 28 March. 9 individuals in Romania and 11 in Italy remain in…

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AU: Health department breached Privacy Act in 2016 incident

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Dissent

AAP reports: The federal health department breached the Privacy Act when it released data about one in 10 Australians and didn’t adequately protect their identities. In August 2016 the department published data on a government website regarding a 10 per cent sample of people who had made a claim for payment of Medicare benefits since…

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Aadhaar hearing: Supreme Court expresses concerns with data breaches, Aadhaar security and profiling

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

It sounds like the Supreme Court of India was asking UIDAD some appropriate questions about the Aadhaar system.  Asheeta Regidi reports: On Day 22 of the Aadhaar hearing, the CEO of the UIDAI, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, completed his PowerPoint presentation before the Supreme Court and answered the questioned posed by the petitioners. The bench posed…

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Hackers steal 2.6 million Haryana power consumers’ data, demand $10 million ransom in BTC

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

For those like me who don’t automatically remember different systems:  26 lakh = 2.6 million, and 1 crore = USD $10 million. Statesman News Service reports: The billing data of over 26-lakh consumers with the  Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), one of the two power discoms in the state,  has been stolen and the…

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India: 1,020 bank accounts were used for phishing attacks

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

PTI reports that fraudsters used more than 1,000 bank accounts as part of a phishing scheme: “As per the details shared by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), complaints were received regarding e-wallet scam involving 1,020 bank accounts in 351 bank branches of public and private sector banks (13 banks),” Minister of State for Electronics and…

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Saskatchewan Health Authority: employee snooped in home care records for 7 years

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Dissent

A long-running insider snooping breach was first detected by the health authority last year. When the agency investigated, they found an employee had snooped in the records of 880 clients over a period of seven years. The Estevan Mercury reports that as a result of the incident and their findings, the authority has implemented a…

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