Catalin Cimpanu reports: Six out of ten UK universities admitted to falling victims to ransomware attacks, according to mobile security firm SentinelOne, who has sent Freedom of Information (FOI) request to 71 institutions across Britain. The company says that 13 universities refused to answer its request for information, claiming the response would damage their commercial…
Category: Non-U.S.
Fines levied in Danish media snooping case
Ray W writes: Aller Media, the owner of Danish gossip magazine Se & Hor, was fined 10 million kroner [approximately $1.5 million] – and the magazine’s former managing editor, Kim Bretov, and former news editor, Lise Bondesen, were each given suspended jail sentences –on Thursday for illegally buying the credit card information of celebrities. Read…
AU: Foster care privacy breaches span more than a decade
Beau Donelly reports: Victoria’s child-protection agency has been breaching the privacy of traumatised children and foster carers across the state for more than a decade and quietly paying them off or upgrading security at their homes if they find out about it. Fairfax Media last month exposed a series of major security breachesout of the Department…
UK: Four arrests after private details of vulnerable residents are ‘stolen’ from Camden Council
Richard Osley reports: Four people have been arrested after the private details of some of Camden’s most vulnerable residents were “stolen” from Town Hall computer systems – raising fears that personal information has already been passed to cold-call scammers, the New Journal has learned. Detectives were called in by Camden Council after the names, dates of birth and addresses…
TH: ID thieves arrested for 986K internet banking theft
Sunthon Pongpao reports: Six men have been arrested and charged with identity theft and stealing nearly 1 million baht [approximately USD $29,000] via internet banking from an auto accessory trader in Ayutthaya they found on Facebook. […] They chose their victims on Facebook, made contact on the pretence of buying goods to get bank account…
UK: Northern Irish nursing home fined by Information Commissioner’s Office
A nursing home in County Antrim has been fined £15,000 for breaking the law by not looking after the sensitive personal details in its care. An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found widespread systemic failings in data protection at Whitehead Nursing Home at the time of a data breach. The breach came when a member of…