Zhang Ningning reports: Eight people involved in stealing, selling and buying information of more than 200,000 newborns have been sentenced for infringing citizens’ personal information. The Pudong New Area People’s Court said yesterday that the defendants included two former employees of the city’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The eight were sentenced from seven to…
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Mag publisher Future stored your FileSilo passwords in plaintext. Then hackers hit
Shaun Nichols reports: UK magazine publisher Future’s FileSilo website has been raided by hackers, who have made off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords. FileSilo.co.uk is a website Future’s mag subscribers can log into to download materials, such as Photoshop templates and graphics, for tutorials published in its print titles. Future is responsible…
Loblaw, Canadian Tire respond to breach reports
Aleksandra Sagan reports: Loblaw is warning PC Plus rewards collectors to beef up their passwords after points were stolen from some members’ accounts. “We are treating this as a breach as individual member accounts were accessed and points were stolen,” said Kevin Groh, the company’s vice-president of corporate affairs and communication, in a statement. Meanwhile, Global News reported…
Malware hit Hitachi Payments Services, 3.2 million cards affected
Press Trust of India reports: Hitachi Payments Services on Thursday accepted its systems were compromised by a sophisticated malware in mid-2016, that led to one of the biggest cyber security breaches in the country with 3.2 million cards affected and a scare over security of card-based transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had…
15,000 data files of Taiwanese nationals possibly hacked: Govt
Joseph Yeh reports: They claimed that no nationals had yet reported that they were victimised due to the hack. Speaking at an emergency press event, Winston Chung, deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Bureau of Consular Affairs (BOCA), apologised to the public at an emergency press conference, saying that the possible leak was…
Sports Direct hacked last year, but still hasn’t told its staff of data breach?
Alexander J. Martin reports: Sports Direct has left its 30,000-strong workforce in the dark over a data breach in the autumn when a hacker accessed internal systems containing staffers’ personal information. The Register can reveal the UK’s largest sports retail business was the subject of a digital break-in during September, when an attacker exploited public vulnerabilities…