Renaldo Gabriel reports: It was their ticket to life in the fast lane. A team of Indonesian hackers allegedly broke into the popular online ticketing site Tiket.com, stealing some Rp 4.1 billion ($308,000 USD) worth of airline tickets for the low-cost carrier Citilink. The mostly teenage hackers then sold the stolen tickets on Facebook, using…
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Top Mexican cop leaked sensitive info to drug cartels, prosecutors charge
Jason Meisner reports: As a top Mexican police commander, Ivan Reyes Arzate was trusted for years with the most sensitive information surrounding U.S. investigations of dangerous cartel drug traffickers, from notorious Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the violent offshoot faction known as Beltran-Leyva. But last fall, after secret details about a Chicago-based…
Dramatic Overhaul of Israeli Data Security Regulations Passed by Knesset
From Hunton & Williams: Haim Ravia and Dotan Hammer of Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz recently published an article outlining Israel’s new Protection of Privacy Regulations (“Regulations”), passed by the Knesset on March 21, 2017. The Regulations will impose mandatory comprehensive data security and breach notification requirements on anyone who owns, manages or maintains a…
Privacy, what? Bengaluru police leaks 46,000 phone numbers on Twitter
IndiaToday reports: …… Bengaluru police goofed up too when it came to handling privacy concerns of Bengaluru citizens. The police department posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens on their Twitter handle (@BCPCR) who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, and gambling etc. The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing…
Swiss won’t help France investigate tax case using stolen data
John Revill reports: Switzerland’s highest court has rejected a French request for help in investigating a married couple for tax offences, ruling that data stolen from HSBC’s Geneva private bank was inadmissible. The ruling comes amid the latest scandal to hit Credit Suisse after an anonymous tipster alerted Dutch authorities to thousands of suspect accounts…
OpPlan 5027 Exposed to Hackers
KBS reports: In an exclusive report, it has been made known that a South Korea-U.S. key war plan was exposed in a hacking attack in September of last year. While pointing to North Korea, the ministry had initially believed that there was no major security breach. However, recent investigations have revealed otherwise. Read more on KBS…