Nick Squires reports: An Italian nuclear engineer and his sister have been arrested by police on charges of conducting a massive cyber-espionage operation that hacked into the emails of two former prime ministers, Vatican cardinals and Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank. Giulio Occhionero, 45, and his sister Francesca Maria Occhionero, 48,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Taipei employees’ financial data leaked
Sean Lin reports: An information security breach led to financial data concerning at least 2,000 Taipei City Government employees being leaked on Tuesday night, with city officials ascribing the incident to outdated and vulnerable data management software. The information, which was leaked to Yahoo Taiwan’s search engine, included the names, pay grades, salaries and bank…
Canadian plastic surgery center and spa were leaking patient files
Dr. M.W. Elmaraghy, a Canadian plastic surgeon, owns SpaSurgica, an outpatient plastic surgery clinic in Waterloo. He also owns Rejuvenate Medical Spa, which is at the same location as SpaSurgica. On December 27, Bob Diachenko of the MacKeeper Security Research team contacted DataBreaches.net to say they had discovered patient data from those two entities was exposed and that anyone could…
Hello Kitty Database of 3.3 Million Users Surfaces
Tom Spring reports: A cache of data including 3.3 million user credentials belonging to Hello Kitty parent company Sanrio surfaced over the weekend. The breach was originally reported in December 2015, but at the time Sanrio denied any data was stolen as part of the breach. The breach was tied to a misconfigured MongoDB installation that…
Eastern Health Investigating Unusual Privacy Breach
It was ultimately a case of calling the wrong phone number, but due to a combination of factors, the error wasn’t realized until after some patient information had been revealed. VOCM reports: Eastern Health is investigating after VOCM Backtalk host Pete Soucy found himself in a recent comedy of errors that resulted in a privacy…
TwoPlusTwo Poker Forum Hacked; Personal Data Stolen and Offered for Sale
FlushDraw reports: The world’s largest online poker discussion forum, TwoPlusTwo, has again seen its virtual defenses breached. The site’s operators have confirmed that the forum was hacked at some point late in 2016, with the personal data then being offered for sale elsewhere on the Internet. The hacking and theft of the personal information was discovered…