Roee Yanovsky reports: Criminals from east Jerusalem were able to use information from a Hyundai and Kia data leak to steal dozens of brand new luxury cars and smuggle them into the West Bank. Israel Police recently arrested three east Jerusalem residents who were able to access data from the two companies, and using that…
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Personal information of more than 100 Quebec judges found in parking lot
CBC reports: A secret list containing the home addresses, phone numbers and names of spouses to dozens of Quebec Superior Court judges turned up in a parking lot, leaving the court’s spokesperson hoping no digital copies were made. […] St-Pierre says the list contained the personal information of 125 Montreal-based Superior Court judges. Copies of this confidential…
Private Numbers Exposed – FLOW Customers’ Personal Information Inadvertently Released In Yellow Pages
Jovan Johnson reports: The full scale has not been revealed, but telecommunications company FLOW is scrambling to explain to perhaps hundreds of customers why their telephone numbers and other data that have been private, in some cases for almost a quarter of a century, have been released in the 2017 Yellow Pages telephone directory. Among…
Players data found on public computer, England team hit by security breach in Chennai
Chennai: While England are facing an uphill task to save the fifth and final Test against India in Chennai on Tuesday, the team was hit by a security breach where all the details about the police protection and players’ stay were let out in the open. The data was found on a public computer in a…
Hackers hit Thai sites to protest restrictive internet law
AP reports: Hackers saying they are protesting the passage of a bill restricting internet freedom have been attacking Thai government computer servers, temporarily disabling public access and reportedly copying restricted documents. A Facebook group called for people to deny access to government sites by repeatedly reloading them, a tactic that apparently forced the Defense Ministry…
In: Ex-staffers of private firm booked for data theft
TNN reports: A city-based customer care firm has alleged that two of its former employees stole sensitive information while employed by them, and used it to start a rival customer care firm in Dehradun. In a complaint filed at Udyog Vihar police station on Saturday, Manoj Pandey, senior vice-president of Quatrro Global Services, said the accused, Pramod Mamgain and Vikas…