In November, 2015, this site noted a breach involving VTech. At the time, Motherboard reported: The hacked data includes names, email addresses, passwords, and home addresses of 4,833,678 parents who have bought products sold by VTech, which has almost $2 billion in revenue. The dump also includes the first names, genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids….
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WestJet says some rewards members’ profile data leaked online
CBC News reports: WestJet says it is working with police in Calgary and the RCMP cybercrime unit after some members’ profile data was disclosed online. The airline said in a news release Friday night that profile data of some WestJet Rewards members was disclosed online “by an unauthorized third party.” The Calgary-based airline says no credit card or banking information was…
UK: Hundreds of sensitive council documents found in London estate
People in the U.K. may wish to make excuses for councils having breaches – e.g., “It’s just a few retired folks who mean well,” but I am fed up with the breaches of sensitive information that councils are responsible for. Consider this report today from the BBC: Hundreds of sensitive documents have been found in…
Teenage computer hacker jailed for Malware attacks on Microsoft and Sony has prison sentence reduced
There’s an update in the case of Adam Mudd, the U.K. teenager behind the profitable TitaniumStresser. Matthew Lennon reports: A teenage computer hacker who carried out attacks on Microsoft, Sony and Cambridge University from his bedroom has had his prison sentence reduced. West Herts College student Adam Mudd, now 20, committed the crimes from his bedroom at…
Ola employee accused of data theft from Aadhaar website
The Business Standard reports: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has registered a case with the Bengaluru Police against Abhinav Srivastava and Qarth Technologies Pvt Ltd for misusing Aadhaar data obtained from its website without any authentication. Chennai-based Qarth Technologies was acquired by India’s largest taxi aggregator Ola in March last year, to help…
Singapore privacy watchdog proposes mandatory reporting of data breaches
Irene Tham reports: It will soon be mandatory for organisations to inform customers of personal data breaches as soon as they are discovered – if a proposed revision to the law gets the green light. Organisations must also report the breach to the privacy commission within 72 hours. The move by the Personal Data Protection…