Two men accused of stealing data from the Federal Ministry of Health face trial in Berlin Thursday. A system administrator is alleged to have provided a pharmaceutical lobbyist with inside information. An external IT expert working for the German Health Ministry is being charged with receiving bribes from a lobbyist working for the pharmaceutical industry to spy…
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Anonymous Hacks Italian Speed Camera Database
TheNewspaper reports: Individuals operating under the banner of the group Anonymous remotely took control of a local police computer system in Corregio, Italy, last week. After erasing the speed camera ticket database, those responsible sent screenshots of their work to various Italian newspapers to prove that they had eliminated 40 gigabytes worth of infringement photographs…
UK: Pro-Union donors named in data leak
Hamish Macdonell reports: An investigation has been launched into a data security breach at an anti-independence campaign group in which hundreds of donor names and contact details were leaked. Scotland In Union said it had reported the breach to police and was trying to contact all those affected. The names, addresses, emails and phone numbers…
Laptop stolen from hospital in Erandwane
TNN reports: One out of the two laptops, used for entering patients’ records, was stolen from the fourth floor of a private hospital in Erandwane on Friday afternoon. Prasad Wahal, a hospital employee, lodged a complaint the with Alankar police. Wavhal told TOI the hospital had kept two laptops in the fourth-floor passage for the…
Abandoned documents at raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by PM’s in-law
Oops? The Phnom Penh Post reports: Kandal, Cambodia – Abandoned documents, found by Phnom Penh Post reporters at a raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s in-law, suggest a network of local payoffs across Kandal province. A trove of documents left behind by law enforcement officials at a recently shuttered cockfighting…
Canadian government agrees to $17.5 million settlement of class action lawsuit over student loan privacy breach
The Canadian Press reports an update on litigation stemming from a lost or missing device with student loan data on 583,000 students. The breach occurred in 2013. The federal government will pay at least $17.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed after a major privacy breach involving about 583,000 student loan recipients. Firms…