In 2011, the Information Commissioner’s Office had the Wolverhampton council sign an undertaking to improve data protection. In 2014, the ICO ordered the council to improve data protection. And now in July, 2016, we read this: A report from the Information Commissioner’s Office said payroll information relating to 9,858 workers had been disclosed to a ‘third…
Category: Non-U.S.
Teenager who hacked governments worldwide is spared jail
Martin Evans reports: A teenage computer hacker who shutdown government networks across the world and sent bomb threats to US airlines from his bedroom, has walked free from court. The 16-year-old from Plympton in Devon, began hacking the sites of organisations and governments he disagreed with when he was just 14. Using a laptop computer in…
Ca: Government knew of Phoenix privacy breach issue more than a year ago
Aedan Helmer reports: The government encountered not one, but two privacy breaches with the problematic Phoenix pay system, and was aware of the issue more than a year ago, officials acknowledged Thursday. In an open letter to public servants posted online Thursday afternoon, Public Services and Procurement Canada deputy minister Marie Lemay said that in both…
Notorious Hacker ‘Phineas Fisher’ Says He Hacked Turkey’s Ruling Political Party
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…
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…