There continues to be a lot of media coverage of the COMELEC breach in the Philippines. Here’s an interesting response. Carlos Nazareno reports: The Center for International Law Philippines (Centerlaw), a human rights legal group, delivered on Monday, April 25, a demand letter to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over its possible failure to reasonably protect the…
Category: Non-U.S.
QNB, Al Jazeera, and other Qatar entities have their data leaked online
Doha News reports that clients of Qatar National Bank (QNB), employees at Al Jazeera Media Network, and even secret service agents have had what appears to be their details leaked. The names, phone numbers, bank passwords and other sensitive information of what appears to be a large number of Qatar National Bank (QNB) customers has…
Former PwC employees on trial in Lux Leaks breach and scandal
There’s a new development in an insider breach that created shock waves internationally As I had noted back in 2014, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee charged with copying and leaking files to the media (the “Lux Leaks” case) had suggested that he wasn’t the only employee involved. Now Fraser Simpson reports that today, two former PwC employees…
INAI urges Mexican Senate to pass legislation to help protect personal information
In the wake of the massive voter data leak affecting 87 million Mexican voters, INAI has urged the Senate to pass secondary legislation that would strengthen data protection by expanding the law to apply to political parties and agencies, and not just private businesses. I would think the leak would be enough to garner legislative support…
SWIFT Software Bug Exploited by Bangladesh Bank Hackers
Phil Muncaster reports: A bug in SWIFT banking software may have been exploited to allow hackers to make off with $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank in February, according to reports. Investigators at British defense contractor BAE Systems told Reuters that the malware in question, evtdiag.exe, had been designed to change code in SWIFT’s Access…
Mexico launches criminal probe into exposure of voter information (updated)
Dell Cameron reports: Mexican authorities have begun criminal proceedings into a data theft incident said to affect more than 87 million registered voters. Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) filed a criminal complaint on Friday with the country’s election crimes office concerning millions of voter records discovered on a U.S.-based Amazon cloud server. The theft of…