Brian Krebs reports: A Moscow court this week convicted and sentenced seven hackers for breaking into countless online bank accounts — including “Paunch,” the nickname used by the author of the infamous “Blackhole” exploit kit. Once an extremely popular crimeware-as-a-service offering, Blackhole was for several years responsible for a large percentage of malware infections and stolen…
Category: Non-U.S.
IE: Personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants incorrectly ‘leaked’ – PSEU conference
Caroline Crawford reports: The personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants, including their pps numbers and detail of leave taken, was incorrectly “leaked” in a major data breach, the PSEU conference has heard. The incident which happened in the past week occurred when a spreadsheet containing the personal details of 1,914 civil servants was inadvertently…
Employee in Prince Albert snooped into ex-husband’s, daughter’s medical files
CBC reports: Snooping into someone’s medical data is a breach of privacy rules, but secretly conducting urine tests is not, Saskatchewan’s privacy and information commissioner says. A Saskatchewan man complained to the privacy commissioner last year that his ex-wife poked into health information and performed urine tests at a hospital in the Prince Albert area when it…
Some Coinroll users report balances stolen
On April 11, Coinroll.com issued the following statement on their site: 11 Apr 2016 Security Audit Dear players, lately some users claimed theft of their balance on Coinroll. We are aware of that and we’re running full audit and trying to determine if users were compromised or if there was a breach at Coinroll. We…
Turkish PM points finger at CHP’s İzmir branch for massive data leak
Hurriyet reports: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has accused a provincial branch of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) of leaking a database containing the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens, strictly rejecting the responsibility of any state institutions or ministries. Speaking live on Habertürk TV station late on April 11, Davutoğlu said…
UK: 6,000 staff join data breach lawsuit against Morrisons
Incident response is so important, and Morrison’s did not do a good job, as I’ve commented before. Now Tom Reeve reports: Nearly 6000 current and former staff of retail giant Morrisons have signed up to join a combined lawsuit against the company following a massive data breach two years ago. According to the law firm…