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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
American Samoa Domain Registry Was Exposing Client Data Since the mid-1990s
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A British security researcher that goes online only by the name of InfoSec Guy revealed today that American Samoa domain registry ASNIC was using an outdated domain name management system that contained a bug allowing anyone to view the personal details of any .as domain owner. The researcher also claims that anyone…
Movimiento Ciudadano admits it was their copy of the Mexican voter list on AWS, tries to deflect blame to researcher
A reader kindly informed me that Movimiento Ciudadano, one of the political parties that had legitimate access to Mexico’s voter data list, has admitted it was responsible for the leak on Amazon. Except that as I read more, I realized they weren’t really admitting they were responsible for the leak. I’ve been trying to read/translate a number…