Josh Ye reports: Police in southern China have busted six data theft operations, arresting 138 suspects at 14 locations in the city of Guangzhou, according to a national newspaper . The police said the raid, which took place on early on Monday, seized more than 2,000 bank cards and a large number of electronic devices including…
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Website of Korea retail giant Lotte hacked in China
Allen Cone reports: The Lotte Group said Wednesday its website in China was hacked, one day after South Korea’s retail giant signed a deal to sell land for a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. The website, www.lotte.cn, was inaccessible since Tuesday afternoon because of a virus planted by hackers, a Lotte official said, citing an analysis of…
12.6 million cases of personal information leaked in Japan in 2016, survey shows
Kyodo News reports: Some 12.6 million cases involving the leak of personal information were confirmed or suspected in the nation last year due to cyberattacks against companies and other entities, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday, affecting roughly 1 in 10 people. The figure marked a sixfold increase from the 2.07 million cases in 2015,…
SG: Personal data of national servicemen and Mindef staff stolen in breach
AsiaOne reports: The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said on Tuesday (Feb 28) that the personal information of some National Servicemen (NSFs) and ministry employees were stolen after a “targeted and carefully planned” attack on one of its computer systems. […] Mindef said that it detected a breach in its I-net system, which provides Internet access…
UK: Private health firm fined £200,000 after IVF patients’ confidential conversations revealed online
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a private health company, HCA International Ltd, for failing to keep fertility patients’ personal information secure. The £200,000 monetary penalty has been issued as a result of an ICO investigation into the way the Lister Hospital was transferring, transcribing and storing records of IVF…
NHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk
Denis Campbell and Pamela Duncan report: Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the NHS lost more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including test results and treatment plans. In one of the biggest losses of sensitive clinical information in the NHS’s 69-year history, more than 500,000 pieces of patient data…