Jacob J reports: Singapore’s privacy watchdog has penalised 11 organisations for failing to protect the privacy of customers’ personal data. Karaoke chain K Box Entertainment Group was imposed with the heaviest fine of S$50,000 for failing to protect personal data of members on its platform under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Singapore’s data protection…
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AU: Gold Coast Health apologizes and retrains staff after patient notes found lying in street
Ryan Keen reports: Gold Coast Health is retraining staff on how to handle patient records after a local truckie’s surgical report and personal information was found in the street. The blunder, which prompted truck driver Martin James to lodge a complaint with Gold Coast Health’s privacy officer, has resulted in fallout for a hospital registrar…
CN: Death sentence over selling of state secrets
Li Qian reports: A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents to an unidentified foreign spy agency between 2002 and 2011, China Central Television revealed yesterday. Huang Yu, 48, was paid a total of US$700,000 for the information, CCTV said. It didn’t say when sentence was passed, or…
Failed blackmail nets ex-Leumi Card employee 11 years in jail
Gur Megiddo reports a follow-up on an insider breach that occurred in 2014 and was previously covered here and here: A former Leumi Card employee convicted of stealing information from the credit card company’s database as a precursor to blackmail has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Eliran Rosnis admitted the charges against him…
Ca: Children’s aid families’ names posted online
Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
Yahoo’s FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident
Maria Nikolova reports a follow-up to a previously reported incident involving YJFX: The analysis has shown that 185,626 pieces of information were taken out. 128,220 pieces of information were in a status in which public browsing was possible, but were not accessed. 56,665 pieces of information were accessed through search engine crawlers. 741 pieces of…