Joshua Robertson reports: Australia’s corporate regulator has committed a serious privacy breach via a flaw in its website that exposes the search records of anyone tapping into its company database. The breach, which opens up free backdoor access to company search histories, including by investigative journalists and finance industry professionals, remained live on the Australian…
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UK: Warning for workers after charity employee is prosecuted for data protection offences
Speaking of charity organizations and breaches, here’s the flip side of an external hack: an insider who doesn’t follow the rules of data protection. From the Information Commissioner’s Office: People working with personal information have been warned they have to obey strict privacy laws after a charity worker was prosecuted for making his own copies…
UK: Confidential information ‘may’ have been in stolen hospital container
The Dudley News reports: Bosses have admitted that a waste container stolen from Russells Hall Hospital may have contained confidential information. The container, which held paper waste, was stolen from the back of the hospital at 6.45pm on October 5. Read more on Dudley News.
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre makes note of TheDarkOverlord
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ, saw fit to include a notice about TheDarkOverlord in their Weekly Threat Report of November 3. Their weekly threat report is drawn from open source reporting. The Dark Overlord – Systematic cyber-enabled extortion A cyber crime group called ‘The Dark Overlord’ has claimed responsibility for…
AU: AMP among companies affected by data breach of 50,000 staff records
Namaan Zhou reports: The personal details of more than 4,000 government employees have been exposed in a massive data breach of 50,000 staff records from various companies across Australia. The leak, first reported by iTnews, is believed to be the second-largest data breach in Australian history, after the details of 550,000 blood donors were accidentally…
2nd Breach at Verticalscope Impacts Millions
Brian Krebs reports: For the second time in as many years, hackers have compromised Verticalscope.com, a Canadian company that manages hundreds of popular Web discussion forums totaling more than 45 million user accounts. Evidence of the breach was discovered just before someone began using that illicit access as a commercial for a new paid search service…