Simon Murfitt1 reports: Brentwood c2c rail users have had their personal email addresses shared with over 500 other rail users. c2c, which operates the line from Shoeburyness to London Fenchurch Street, via Basildon and West Horndon, sent an email last week to 543 customers regarding participation in its automatic delay repay pilot scheme. But the member of staff who…
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Single group of hackers targets Uyghur, Tibetan activists
Jeremy Kirk reports: A years-long campaign of seemingly disparate cyberattacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists likely comes from a single group of hackers, according to a seven-month studyby Palo Alto Networks. The computer security company also concluded that the information stolen by the group, nicknamed Scarlet Mimic, would be of little interest to entities other than…
AE: Hacker embezzles almost Dhs8.4m
Ahmed Ghannam reports: The Criminal Court in Dubai looked into a case where an employee of a company was charged with accessing the system of the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and manipulating the fees imposed when issuing trade licences. He was also charged with forging government documents belonging to the DED through…
Bank Yerushalayim: Customer Money Safe, Despite Hack
Dror Halavi reports: Hackers broke into the servers of Bank Yerushalayim over the weekend, entering a customer database, where they accessed data on thousands of customers. The bank took the database offline after the breach was discovered, it reported in a notice sent to customers on Motzoei Shabbos. The bank said that the database included…
Ca: NWT Power Corporation apologizes for customer data breach
CBC News reports: The Northwest Territories Power Corporation has sent a letter to its customers telling them about a data security breach involving their personal information earlier this month. The company says that on Jan. 13, the company replied by email to a customer inquiry and attached the wrong file to that outgoing email. The file…
AU: Hack attack on a hospital IT system highlights the risk of still running Windows XP
Robert Merkel writes: A virus attack on the computer system of one of Melbourne’s largest hospital networks is cause for concern because it affected machines running Microsoft’s Windows XP, an operating system no longer supported by the software giant. A report this week in The Age said a “computer virus” has affected Windows XP systems across the…