Janene Pieters reports: A 46-year-old police officer from Eindhoven was officially dismissed for leaking confidential police information, ANP reports The man was arrested in October last year on suspicion of violating his official secrecy. The Public Prosecutor now decided that he will be prosecuted for that. The Prosecutor believes that he searched for information on…
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Deutsche Telekom finds passwords for sale on dark web, but denies hack
Zack Whittaker reports: German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has warned its customers that it found account passwords for sale on the dark web. In a German posting on its website, the company said that a sample of 90 records it received showed that “at least part” of the detail are “real and current.” The sample is part…
French police hit by security breach as data put online
BBC reports: The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist. A mutual organisation which provides extra health and other insurance benefits for police says the details were uploaded by a disgruntled…
JP: Teen faces charges over breach of online school grades management system
Kyodo News reports: A second arrest warrant was served on a 17-year-old boy Monday over the theft of some 210,000 digital files containing the grades of students in Saga Prefecture schools, police said. The boy, a resident of the city of Saga, is suspected of accessing an online system used by the prefecture’s public junior…
UK: John Moores University employee data leaked to former employee
Martin Thomas reports that someone at John Moores University goofed and emailed information on current employees to a former employee. The information was that contained in P60 forms, which from looking at a few samples online, appear to be similar to our W-2 statements in that they contain the employee’s name and address, the wages…
Dark web drug dealer and hacker to pay out £17,000 and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work
Victoria Wheldon reports: A Scots computer hacker who used the ‘dark web’ to sell drugs has been ordered to pay £17,000 in compensation and carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site which he used to buy and sell drugs including Diazepam…