Michael Park and Jamie Griffin write: As mentioned in our previous legal update, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department released and sought comments on an exposure draft of a mandatory data breach notification bill, the Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015 (Cth) (Exposure Bill). The time for submissions has now closed, and the Attorney-General’s Department has published a…
Category: Non-U.S.
Feds made 5,670 privacy breaches last year; CRA worst offender
CTV reports: New documents show that the private information of tens of thousands of people was mishandled by the federal government last year, including hundreds of taxpayer files inappropriately accessed by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, which was the worst offender. Read the detailed findings on CTV. I can’t help it. I’m reading the above…
Blackhole’ Exploit Kit Author Gets 7 Years
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…
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…