A telecom in India has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee for stealing proprietary information on his way out. Times of India doesn’t name the employee, but the firm seems to be Gujarat Telecom Circle.
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RU: Opposition PARNAS party cancels primaries over massive leak of voters’ personal data
Oh great – another voter database leak. RT reports: The Russian Party of People’s Freedom, PARNAS, has had to suspend its internet primaries after a file with personal details of all participants was placed on the party’s website. Top party officials blame unidentified hackers for the privacy breach. PARNAS was holding primaries in order to…
Odisha student arrested for hacking into Lloyd Electrical and Engineering Ltd, causing financial loss of Rs. 60 lakhs
Anand Narayanaswamy reports: Hacking is not an easy task but for Himalaya Mohanty, a 19-year old student currently pursuing his ITI course in Odisha, it was just a fun which turned into nightmare. Mohanty allegedly hacked into the EPABX of a private company in the city using his own mobile phone, which resulted in financial…
I can’t even…
The headline in the Daily Mail basically says it all: British teenager hacks North Korea’s newly-launched Facebook site after guessing the login and password were set to ‘admin’ and ‘password’ Well almost all. Note that this is not Facebook’s site but a Facebook clone called phpDolphin. Even so…
Ca: Veterans Affairs admits to another privacy breach by Canadian legion staff
David Pugliese reports: Veterans Affairs is acknowledging another case where the confidential files of a Canadian veteran were accessed, without consent, by an employee of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Ottawa Citizen reported on such cases in early May, but at the time, Veterans Affairs said it was aware of only one complaint about unauthorized…
ZA: MTN exposing subscribers’ personal details online
When accessing their bills online, MTN clients are being shown the bills of other subscribers. This is according to a subscriber who told MyBroadband he was able to see thousands of bills that weren’t his own. He logged in as normal on MTN’s e-billing site, received a one-time PIN, and accessed the client portal – which…