Li Ruohan reports: Personal information of over 200,000 children in Jinan, East China’s Shandong Province, including the cellphone number and home address of their parents have been leaked, triggering widespread concerns on the possible consequences if criminals get hold of the data. The data was offered for 32,000 yuan ($4,900) from hospitals where the children…
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UK: Former LV= employee tried to pay ex-colleague for crash claims information
A former LV= employee offered an ex-colleague £3,000 a month to send him the details of customers involved in road accidents. David Lewis, of Durlston Road in Swanage, used messaging service Whatsapp to contact Jacqueline Carter after he left the Poole-based business in 2014. However, Ms Carter warned Lewis that she wasn’t a “******* idiot” after he asked…
UK: Babyfaced teen designed programs which helped attackers crash 224,000 websites worldwide
But it’s not like he’s a hacker – he only did it for the money. Jane Tyler reports that Grant Manser created the damaging “stresser” software from his bedroom and sold it on the ‘dark web’ to customers around the globe for as little as £4.99. He was 16 at the time he started in…
Barrie police chief says investigation ongoing after officer accesses cell block video
For your file on “small breaches with big impact:” Barrie police Special Const. Ralph Hillyard was fired last week for what Greenwood calls “misconduct and unacceptable behaviour,” one day after Ontario court justice William Gorewich rebuked the officer for accessing restricted cell block video of a woman in custody that captured her using the toilet….
UK: Expectant parents hit by National Childbirth Trust data breach
BBC reports: A childbirth charity has apologised to expectant parents after their registration details were accessed in a “data breach”. The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) sent a message saying their email addresses, usernames and passwords had been “compromised”. The incident has been reported to police and the UK’s data watchdog. The NCT stressed no other…
Mental health records sent to N.S. spa in error over last decade
Yvonne Colbert reports: A Bedford, N.S., woman has spent more than a decade trying to plug a privacy breach that has resulted in personal mental health records being faxed to her business, and has turned to CBC News in an effort to get the faxes to stop. Over the years, Lisa Belanger estimates she’s received dozens…