Sam Bidey reports: Kingston Council will appoint an independent investigator after an email slip up that saw the personal details of more than 2000 people released. The council sent out the bulk email on Wednesday to more than 900 maternal and child health care clients asking them to take part in an online survey, but a…
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8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn’s MongoDB – here’s how to see yours
Troy Hunt writes: Let me make it crystal clear in the opening paragraph: this incident is not about any sort of security vulnerability on GitHub’s behalf, rather it relates to a trove of data from their site which was inappropriately scraped and then inadvertently exposed due to a vulnerability in another service. My data. Probably…
Hackers say they took Mega.nz source code and admin logins
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker group claims to have obtained source code and admin accounts for the file-sharing site Mega.nz, formerly owned by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. The hacker group, known as the Amn3s1a Team, told me by email that they had also obtained internal documents from the company’s servers, by exploiting an escalation of…
AU: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach
ABC reports: A local council in Melbourne’s south-east is embroiled in a privacy breach, after the personal details of more than 2,000 residents were accidentally distributed to the public. A survey was emailed to 952 clients of the City of Kingston Maternal and Child Health Service on Wednesday, but there was an excel spreadsheet attached…
Teenage Birmingham brothers quizzed over £1million credit card fraud
Nick McCarthy reports: Two teenage Birmingham brothers have been quizzed over a £1million credit card fraud that sparked co-ordinated raids in England, Finland, Spain and Canada. West Midlands Police swooped on a house in Great Barr and arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of fraud and cybercrime offences. Officers also spoke to the teenager’s 15-year-old brother at the…
NHS patients being put ‘at risk’ because of cybersecurity flaws
Tom Cheshire reports: A Sky News investigation has discovered the NHS trusts putting patients at risk by not protecting their data online. Seven NHS trusts, serving more than two million people, spent nothing on cybersecurity in 2015. Sky News worked with security experts to find serious flaws in their cybersecurity, which could be easily exploited by…