Tetch Torres-Torres reports: Members of Anonymous Philippines trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday and called for the release of their member currently in detention and facing charges for defacing the Commission on Elections (Comelec) website last March. Clad in Guy Fawkes masks, the group said Paul Z. Biteng should be released from…
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Qatar National Bank confirms limited hack, reassures customers
I’ve been keeping an eye out to see if the Qatar National Bank would confirm claims that they had been hacked. Now they have. From their web site: Doha, 1 May, 2016 – QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment, this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps…
Settlement reached in lawsuit after laptop stolen from Edmonton Medicentre
Bill Mah reports that a lawsuit filed after a 2013 Medicentres breach has settled. The incident involved a laptop with information on 620,000 Albertans being stolen from the clinic. The laptop belonged to an employee of their IT consultant, AbleIT Inc. The Privacy Commissioner would later rule that the clinic had failed to adequately protect their…
UK: Anger and resignations after Welwyn Hatfield Council security breach
Some people take the security of their email addresses very seriously. Alex Lewis reports: An official at Welwyn Hatfield Council sent a routine email to members of the Borough Panel, a formal consultation group with 510 members, but forgot to “blind copy” it. Consequently, everybody receiving the message, about a draft council tax support scheme…
Verifier web site allows you to check to see if your data were in the QNB data dump
The concept of web sites that allow you to check to see if your data were caught up in a hack and data dump really took off after Troy Hunt opened HaveIBeenPwned.com. Now there’s a site that allows you to check to see if your data were caught up in the Qatar National Bank (QNB) data…
Some Users of InnerChef Had Info Hacked and Leaked
Siriam Sharma reports: An anonymous hacker has been able to infiltrate food delivery startup InnerChef‘s servers, and has leaked a partial list of names, phone numbers, and email addresses used at registration to demonstrate the exploit. Gadgets 360 confirmed the data breach by calling and verifying three of the phone numbers provided in the list…