Bobdon Popa reports: Security pentester Kapustkiy has managed to break into the Eastern Indian Regional Council server and access the data of no less than 17,000 students, in an attempt to show once again how vulnerable websites belonging to some authorities across the world actually are. This breach comes just only a few days after…
Category: Non-U.S.
Santa sabotaged: Mass data theft from children’s letters to Father Frost in Russia
RT reports: Parents beware! A data breach has been discovered somewhere it was least expected. The Russian telecom watchdog has tracked 55 websites which disclose personal data from the online letters children write to Father Frost (the Russian version of Santa Claus) ahead of the New Year. “We’ve discovered 55 websites that sabotage the work…
Department of National Defence investigating possible hack of its recruiting site
Lee Berthiaume reports: The federal government was unable to say Thursday whether any personal information of potential military recruits was stolen during what appears to have been a hack of a National Defence website. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said federal officials were investigating after people trying to access the military’s recruiting website were instead directed to…
UK: KCL staff offered emotional support, clergy chat to help get over data loss
This might seem more appropriate on Saturday Night Live as a skit, except that it’s not a joke. Alexander J. Martin reports that King’s College London is offering its staff “counseling and prayers to help them get over the data loss suffered during October’s catastrophic IT failure.” The latest missive from management, which stresses it is “particularly mindful”…
Jamaica’s National Works Agency forced to redo roadwork survey after data theft
Another reminder about the risks of data being stolen from an employee’s car at their home. Loop News reports: The National Works Agency (NWA) has been forced to redo a survey relating to the Montego Bay bypass road project in St James, following the theft of the data recently. The agency had collected the data…
Three mobile data hack leaves 9 million customers at risk (UPDATED)
Update: Over 130,000 accounts were compromised. See Three’s statement, which appears under the original post. Ben Chapman reports: Three men have been arrested after a data breach at the Three mobile network allowed fraudsters to access personal data and steal phones. The company, said names and addresses were stolen and it does not know how many of…