Claire Reilly reports: It’s official. Foreign spies compromised Australia’s government networks last year, and they got at us through our weather division. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed that a 2015 attack on servers at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was conducted by a “foreign intelligence service.” The attack saw two computers on the BOM’s network…
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Ca: Province says it might have sent tax documents to wrong addresses
CBC News reports: Manitoba Finance is investigating after the province revealed it might have accidentally sent six sets of business tax documents to the wrong address. A handful of tax returns may have been included in envelopes intended for and sent to other businesses, the province said in a statement Tuesday. The documents displayed the business name, address, account number…
AU: Attackers exploiting CBA health fund data breach
Allie Coyne reports: The not-for-profit health fund that services Commonwealth Bank staff is warning customers not to click on dodgy emails after attackers stole customer data from one of its third-party partners. CBHS was established in 1951 by the Commonwealth Bank as a health fund for the bank’s staff. It later separated from CBA and opened up its…
Turkey blocks Google, Microsoft and Dropbox services to ‘suppress’ mass email leaks
Jason Murdock reports: In an attempt to curb the spread of leaked emails from a high-ranking government official, the Turkish government reportedly blocked access to a slew of well-known technology and cloud services in the country, including Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive. According to Turkey Blocks, a web monitoring organisation that reported the outages, the nationwide…
IE: Private investigator guilty of data protection breach
RTÉ reports: The director of a Galway-based private investigation company has pleaded guilty at Tuam District Court to breaches of the Data Protection Act. Michael Ryan, of Glen Collection Investments Ltd, in Glenamaddy, obtained personal information from the Department of Social Protection when he was working on behalf of AIB and Bank of Ireland. Read…
CN: 201 people arrested in infringement of personal information case
CRI reports: Chinese police have arrested 201 suspects in an infringement of citizen’s personal information case, the Ministry of Public Security said Sunday. The case sprawled 25 provincial regions across China. […] Initial investigations showed nine gangs were involved. Each gang consisted of information sources together with three levels of agents. Personal information was sold…