Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A notorious hacker has claimed responsibility for hacking Turkey’s ruling party, the AKP, and stealing more than 300,000 internal emails and other files. The hacker, who’s known as Phineas Fisher and has gained international attention for his previous attacks on the surveillance tech companies FinFisher and Hacking Team, took credit for breaching the servers of Turkey’s ruling…
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Ca: Police clerk charged for Breach of Trust
Ebyan Abdigir reports: A Toronto Police civilian employee of three years has been charged with two counts of breach of trust. It is alleged that Erin Maranan, 28, of Thornhill snooped through unauthorized queries of the police database for searches not for official police business. Maranan allegedly committed these crimes in February 2014 and September…
Denmark sent sensitive health data to Chinese by mistake
This may be one of the most epic fails disclosed in 2016. There is just so much wrong here…. Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen of Reuters reports: Sensitive health information about almost the entire population of Denmark ended up in the wrong hands when a letter by mistake was sent to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish…
Saint John Development Corporation finds cyber attack damage
Rachel Cave reports: The Saint John Development Corporation says it’s working to restore an annual report that it lost to a cyber attack in early 2015. “We lost a lot of our data,” said General Manager Kent MacIntyre. “We had some [Saint John] city IT people working with us to try to recover that but…
Confidential Info of 388 HIV Patients Feared Leaked in China
Trust of India reports: Personal information of at least 388 Chinese HIV patients has been allegedly leaked in a fraud in which individuals had called them up posing as governmental officials, state-run media reported on Tuesday. “A total of 388 persons have received scam calls in 31 provinces,” Bai Hua, the head of Baihualin National…
Asiana Airlines Website Has Customers’ Personal Data Leak
Huh Sung-soo reports: A lack of security on Asiana Airlines’ website exposed the sensitive information of its passengers. […] Asiana Airlines released a statement that there was an exposure of the universal resource locator (URL) for those attached files within contents they uploaded on the frequently asked questions (FAQ) of its Internet bulletin board by some…