Malaysia’s internet regulators are being dragged to court over the massive data breach that involved more than 46 million mobile subscription accounts in the country. Fahmi Fadzil, communications director of the opposition People’s Justice Party, has filed a civil suit against the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Nuemara (M) Sdn Bhd, a private…
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In: Army Lt Col questioned for data leak
Kalyan Ray reports: A Jabalpur-based Lt Col has been detained and being questioned by the army intelligence officials on the suspicion of data leak. The officer posted at 506 army base workshop was quizzed by the Military Intelligence after the alert by the Intelligence Bureau. “The officer continues with his routine duties in the unit…
UK: Scores of confidential files with personal details about abuse survivors were left in our office – and nobody seemed to care
Jennifer Williams reports: Scores of confidential social services files containing highly personal details about the lives of vulnerable young people – including abuse survivors – have been found abandoned in an empty Tameside office. The extraordinary data breach was discovered by the building’s landlord after drug service contractor Change, Grow, Live (CGL) left a fortnight…
Hacker extracts customer data from Canadian Telecom Firm after rebuttal
Waqas writes: A hacker using the alias NullHumanity claims that they have managed to identify a flaw in the customer login system of Freedom Mobile, a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider and claims to obtain private details of customers including their phone number, address, call history and other information effortlessly. The findings were reported by MobileSyrup. The…
UK: ICO releases Q3 data security incident trends
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released Q3 statistics on data protection incidents reported to their office. Not surprisingly, reports were up. Some of their key statistics: Central government sector reports rose by 178% from Q2 (from 9 to 25). Incidents involving a failure to redact data increased from 1 to 11. Education sector incidents rose by…
The strange case of the data breach that stayed online for a month
So the headline’s a bit of clickbait as there’s nothing really strange going on, but it’s still a useful reminder situation….. Simon Sharwood and Kat Hall report on a case where someone found a spread sheet exposed/indexed by Google. And although the company believed that they had gotten everything removed, weeks later it was still…