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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
COMELEC hacking should be treated as a serious national security problem
This column by Cecilio Arillo has some interesting figures…. and concerns. IF no security contingency plan is yet in place, the country’s armed services (police and military) should immediately draw up one because the likelihood of an election failure is not far removed as a result of the massive hacking of the confidential biometric files…
Data leak enough to impeach Comelec execs – lawyers
As bad as the Mexican voter database leak may seem, the hack and data dump affecting over 55 million Filipino voters is much worse, in my opinion. Not only was more sensitive information involved – including passport information and fingerprints – but the data were freely available to an untold number of parties who may…