Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: Kolkata: A BTech engineer working in a Sector V firm was arrested by the Bidhannagar cyber fraud wing for allegedly cheating on the US-based clients of another city-based IT company of lakhs. The accused — Akhilesh Shaw (31) — is a resident of Golpark’s Panchanantala and was arrested last Friday. The modus operandi…
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UK: Firms face £20million fines for losing your private data: Report also says firms’ bosses should be penalised if businesses suffer a date breach
Ian Drury and James Solomon report: Companies will face fines of up to £20million if they lose customers’ personal data in cyber-attacks. A damning report by MPs called for watchdogs to be given the ability to hammer firms in the pocket if they fail to safeguard sensitive information. Bosses should also be penalised if their…
The week in security: Breach costs arrested but CISOs risk the axe over reporting
David Braue reports: The latest study of data-breach costs found Australian businesses bucking global trends by driving down the average cost of data breaches. There was little shelter for CISOs however, with warnings that they could increasingly risk losing their jobs if they can’t improve their reporting of security postures before the breaches happen. Might be time to not…
Ca: Empire Life notifies customers of data breach
I don’t understand: if they detected and responded to this phishing incident in November, 2015, why are they first issuing this statement now? June 17, 2016 (Toronto, Ontario) – The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) announced today that the company is responding to a data breach that may affect a number of its customers. On…
IE: Civil Service payroll system to be audited following data breach
Elaine Edwards reports that PeoplePoint, the payroll service for about 31,000 Irish civil servants, is being audited in the wake of two breaches and other complaints. A November, 2015 breach was previously reported on DataBreaches.net, as was a more recent one in April. Edwards reports: Since PeoplePoint’s introduction [in 2013], there have also been reports…
Quebec Liberals’ strategy meetings were leaking…
Yet another security incident linked to failure to change default passwords. CJAD in Canada reports that the Quebec Liberals’ failure to change the default password on their videoconferencing system allowed anyone to gain access to strategy meetings. The user who found the flaw showed off the unlimited access to the Journal de Montreal. Published screenshots show archived videos…