Ruchi Dua reports: A man who used to hack train ticket booking website IRCTC to generate fake tickets was arrested from Dakshan Darwaza area in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Basti town on Thursday by a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and railway’s vigilance department, police said. Hamid was arrested by a team of…
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Ca: Nurse found guilty of professional misconduct for snooping into patient records
May Warren reports: A Peterborough nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct for accessing almost 300 confidential patient records at Peterborough Regional Health Centre over two years, at a disciplinary hearing she fought to keep secret. Mandy Edgerton (formerly Edgerton-Reid) was slapped with a four-month suspension and a formal reprimand on Wednesday, by a…
AU: Gumtree Australia notifies users of breach
As if he doesn’t have enough breaches to report on, Lee J. (@Cyber_War_News on Twitter) just received a breach notification letter from Gumtree Australia, an online classified ads site. Lee shared it on Pastebin: Dear Lee, We are writing to let you know that some of your Gumtree account information was compromised in a security attack…
Whistle-blowing hacker to become founding member of new political party in Latvia
The Baltic News Service reports: University of Latvia researcher Ilmars Poikans, also known by the nickname Neo, will become one of the founding members of the new political party to be established on May 3 at the initiative of independent MP Artuss Kaimins. Back in 2009, Neo stole from the Latvian State Revenue Service electronic data…
UK: West Dunbartonshire Council warned of court action by ICO over data protection failures
A Scottish council has been rapped by the regulator for repeatedly failing to train staff around data protection. West Dunbartonshire Council were told to implement training on several occasions, as well as being advised to put in place a policy around home working. But their failure to do so ultimately contributed to a data breach…
Amazon denies Movimiento Cuidadano’s claim that they were “hacked”
DataBreaches.net is not alone in being outraged that in response to a massive data leak that put the information of 87 million Mexican voters at risk, Movimiento Ciudadano appears to be falsely claiming that the voter data list they stored on Amazon cloud was “hacked.” The political party has been repeating that false claim on Twitter and in…