Vathani Panirchellvum reports: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Nuemera Sdn Bhd, a data security company have been asked to file their defence over a data leak case involving 46.2 million telco subscribers. The Session Courts today instructed MCMC and Nuemera to file their defence against the civil suit brought by PKR communications…
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In: NEET medicos details leaked
A section of students who wrote the NEET-PG 2018 examinations on January 7 has alleged that the personal data of over 22,250 students were leaked by the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducted the examinations. The students, who made the allegation in an e-mail sent to this newspaper, has also sent the screen…
Telangana BSNL employee database vulnerable to hacking: French researcher Robert Baptiste
Mithun MK reports: French cyber-security researcher Robert Baptiste has found that over 40 GB of sensitive data belonging to State-owned telecom company BSNL, containing names, passwords and mobile numbers of its 47,000 employees, was vulnerable to hacking due to security flaws in websites under the BSNL domain. A few of the websites were also under…
Criminal Network Supplying Identity and Travel Documents Dismantled in Greece – Europol
On 25 February the Organised Crime Unit of the Hellenic Police arrested 11 members of an international organised crime group involved in stealing and falsifying travel documents to facilitate for profit the movement of illegal third-country nationals through Europe. During the course of this Europol-supported investigation, police officers identified members of the criminal organisation and…
Luxembourg DPA Publishes Data Breach Reporting Form
On February 12, 2018, the Luxembourg data protection authority (Commission nationale pour la protection des donées, “CNPD”) published on its website (in Englishand French) a form to be used for the purpose of compliance with data breach notification requirements applicable under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). The CNPD also published questions and…
Germany admits hackers infiltrated federal ministries, Russian group suspected
DW reports: The German government confirmed on Wednesday that it had suffered a large cyberattack that infiltrated federal computer networks. Citing anonymous sources, German news agency dpa had earlier reported that the Russian hacking group APT28 had placed malware in a government network and infiltrated the Foreign and Defense Ministries. The sources said the malware could have…