Jonathan Pearlman reports: Australian steel giant BlueScope Steel has launched legal action to try and retrieve “highly sensitive” information from a Singapore- based former manager, Ms Chinnari Sridevi Somanchi, who has been accused of corporate spying. A suit filed in Australia’s Federal Court alleges that Ms Somanchi downloaded company secrets before she was laid off….
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NZ: Problem gamblers’ privacy breached when list tossed in footpath bin
Nancy El-Gamel reports on a breach that reminds us of how important it is that confidential records be kept, well, confidential: The names and photos of 56 problem gamblers on a secret TAB list were stuffed into a public rubbish bin in Hamilton and found by a passer-by. The 33 pages of private and confidential…
Interxion suffers security breach, customer contact details exposed
Graham Cluley reports: European data center services giant Interxion is informing customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects. In an email seen by this website, and sent to affected customers this weekend, the company explained that it became…
UK’s Information Commissioner repeats call for stronger sentences for data thieves
In the wake of another ridiculously light penalty for data theft, U.K.’s Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, has repeated his call for stronger penalties. The comments come as an employee of a car rental company was sentenced for stealing customer information that accident claims companies could use to make nuisance calls. Sindy Nagra, 42, from Hayes, sold almost 28,000…
26-year-old Turkish hacker sentenced to record 334 years in prison for ID theft, bank fraud
If you thought our federal prosecutors over-charge under the CFAA and/or seek unreasonable prison terms for hacking, read this story in the Daily Sabah: … Onur Kopçak was sentenced Sunday to 135 years in prison for stealing 11 people’s credit card information and selling it to other cyber criminals. With this new sentence approved by the…
Ca: Hard drive containing military and personal information found
Natasha Pace reports that a hard drive found nearly one year ago at a recycling depot is believed to belong to the Canadian military. The drive sat in a man’s closet until he went to use it recently and discovered what was on it. “I ran a recovery software and I basically saw some files that, basically,…