Malaysiakini reports that a lawsuit is being filed over a massive breach in 2014 that affected 46.2 million and was first disclosed in 2017: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is set to face a civil suit from PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil over the 2014 data leak of the personal information of more than…
Category: Non-U.S.
Inside North Korea’s Hacker Army
Sam Kim reports: ….. North Korea’s hacking prowess is almost as feared globally as its nuclear arsenal. Last May the country was responsible for an internet scourge called WannaCry, which for a few days infected and encrypted computers around the world, demanding that organizations pay ransom in Bitcoin to unlock their data. A few years…
Swisscom data breach: Personal details of one in ten Swiss citizens stolen
Jason Murdock reports: A Swiss mobile phone operator has admitted its data systems were breached late last year and the contact details of about 800,000 customers were compromised. Swisscom said on Wednesday (7 February) that the names, addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth of customers were accessed by an unknown party, which got the…
UK: Hospital chiefs launch probe after boxes of patients’ notes left in ARI corridor for a week
Ewan Cameron reports: Health chiefs today launched a probe after boxes of patients’ private health records were left unattended in a hospital corridor for a week. A shocked member of the public spotted at least six boxes of documents, including patients’ notes, sitting in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and contacted the Evening Express. After we…
Biometric data theft: Two more arrested in India
Yagnesh Bharat Mehta reports that there have been two more arrests in a case previously noted on this site. The case involves the theft of biometric data for illegally acquiring food grains meant for registered beneficiaries of the the National Food Security Act. It’s really not clear (to me or law enforcement, it seems) how…
NL: Youth, 18, arrested in probe into last week’s tax office cyber attack
An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…