From the D’oh dept., Rebecca Hill reports: An asylum seeker has won £15,500 from the UK’s Home Office after it blabbed confidential information about his persecution in his home country – to authorities in the state. In a poorly thought-through attempt to verify the authenticity of a set of documents about the asylum seeker, the…
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UK: Top 500 Legal Firms Have Over a Million of Their Credentials Leaked on the Dark Web
Rafia Shaikh reports: Hackers have dumped files in the Dark Web containing nearly 1.2 million email addresses and credentials from the UK’s top 500 law firms. Security researchers from RepKnight cybersecurity firm revealed earlier today that over 1,159,687 email addresses were found in these dump and over 80 percent of these were linked to leaked passwords. The…
Ca: Dark family secrets: Anonymous letter uncovers child welfare records
Here’s a news report of an insider privacy breach in Canada that is just…. awful. That is has resulted in severe psychological harm and trauma to one of those impacted is not surprising. The incident, which you can read about here, involves records that are more than 30 years old that appear to have been…
UK: ICO investigates Age UK after two data breaches
Kirsty Weakley writes: Age UK lost the personal details for current and former staff in two separate data breaches at the end of last year and has reported itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office. The charity has written to current and former employees to tell them that there were two incidents at the end of…
Former Santander bank manager pleads guilty to computer misuse crimes
Gareth Corfield reports: A former Santander bank manager has pleaded guilty to £15,000 worth of computer misuse crimes after her boyfriend talked her into giving him illicitly obtained customer information. This morning at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in England, Abiola Ajibade, 24, of Martock Court, Consort Road, Southwark, pleaded guilty to “causing a…
JP: Zushi ordered to pay ¥1.1 mil. damages for information leak that led to murder
Those of you who are old enough to remember the Rebecca Schaeffer murder may see some similarities in this case. Jiji Press reports: A branch of Yokohama District Court on Monday ordered the city of Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, to pay ¥1.1 million in damages for leaking information that led to the murder of a 33-year-old…