The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties. Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March…
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TW: Siliconware Precision Industries engineer probed over suspected data theft
Julian Ho and Jessie Shen report: Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has received a request from Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to investigate an engineer suspected of stealing confidential company data. According to SPIL, unusual activities were detected within the company’s intranet. In order to protect the company’s confidential data and information, SPIL has therefore submitted a request…
Ca: Rideau Centre denies privacy flaw in free WiFi service
Joe Lofaro reports: The Rideau Centre says there was no privacy breach in its free WiFi network, despite a claim from a post on social media that shoppers’ email addresses were exposed online. The incident, which was the subject of a recent Reddit post, purported to expose the email addresses of previous shoppers who have…
Cn: Viruses and malware hit over 25m users
Ding Yining reports: Over 25 million Chinese mobile phone users were affected by online payment-related spyware and there were about 326,000 kinds of newly created mobile payment malware last year, an industry report showed. Last year, more than 16.7 million smartphone-related viruses or malicious software emerged, according to the online payment “black industry” report released by…
Hackers shut down JYP Entertainment’s web site
AFP reports: A South Korean entertainment company, criticized for its handling of a row over a teenage Taiwanese K-pop star forced to apologize for waving the nation’s flag, has had its Web site brought down by hackers, a spokesman said yesterday. JYP Entertainment, which represents singer Chou Tzu-yu (周子瑜), said the company’s home page had…
Shop online at Asda? Website vuln created account hijack risk
John Leyden reports: Retailer Asda dragged its heels for nearly two years before finally this week tackling a set of security vulnerabilities reported to it by a UK consultant. Asda has acknowledged the flaws – which Paul Moore, who discovered them, argues offer up an account hijack risk – but played down their significance. Moore…