K.C. Vijayan reports: The High Court has ruled in a novel case that confidential documents hacked from a computer and posted online remain confidential despite being in the public domain. The court found in the test case that e-mails between lawyer and client leaked online by a third party but obtained by the defence was…
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UK: University of Greenwich data breach exposed sensitive student info online
Okay, there are breaches involving student information and then there are really bad breaches involving sensitive student info. This is one of the latter. The BBC reports that details about hundreds of London-based research students were exposed online by the University of Greenwich. Students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and signatures were…
Anonymous hacks and leaks South African Dept of Water Affairs data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Members of the World Hacker Team, one of Anonymous’ subdivisions, have breached South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs (DWA) as part of the group’s #OpAfrica and #OpMonsanto campaigns. #OpAfrica is an Anonymous social campaign launched to highlight the situation of child labor and government corruption in African countries. […] The leaked data…
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees (UPDATE2)
Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
More than 10,000 Chinese computers hacked in a year; websites vulnerable
Xinhua reports: More than 10,000 computers in China were attacked by domestic and overseas hackers between December 2014 and November 2015, a cybersecurity firm has detected. The SkyEye Lab, run by Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, said 29 hacker organizations from home and abroad launched the attacks. Read more on Xinhua. Focusing on another part…
@ChileanCrew Hacks, Leaks Details for 300,000 Chilean Citizens Looking for State Benefits
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of Chilean hacktivists that go by the name of Chilean Hackers have broken into the database of CONADI and stolen the personal details of 304,189 Chilean citizens looking for state benefits from the country’s government. Read more on Softpedia. I “get” that the hacktivists want Chile’s president to resign and they want…