AAP reports that a 33-year-old north Queensland female police officer has been suspended for accessing confidential information on police computers. Read more on news.com.au, although there’s no details as to why she allegedly improperly accessed confidential information.
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UAE: Hacker holds UAE bank to ransom, demands $3m
Mazhar Farooqui reported this on Nov. 25: A sinister cyber criminal has hacked into a Sharjah bank and is now holding it to ransom by leaking confidential data of clients on social networking and microblogging site Twitter every few hours, XPRESS can reveal. The criminal who goes by the moniker Hacker Buba and uses a…
Madhya Pradesh police falls to “Pakistani Cyber Attackers”
P. Naveen reports: BHOPAL/JABALPUR: A portal of Madhya Pradesh police was hacked for third time by Pakistani hackers. Hackers calling themselves “Pakistani cyber attackers” defaced the official website of Jabalpur police with Pakistani flags and slogans claiming revenge against Indian attacks. The website www.jabalpurpolice.org was hacked with a handle – Hunter Gujjar — at 11.30am….
UK: Bluebox Broadband: 3,000 customers’ details published online
Angelique Lu reports: Details of more than 3,000 customers or potential customers of Bluebox Broadband have been published online. It is currently unknown who is responsible for the leak of names, email addresses and phone numbers. Read more on BBC.
Hervé Falciani, self-proclaimed HSBC whistleblower, sentenced in absentia to five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history
Juliette Garside has the latest development in a case I’ve been covering on this site since 2009 (my earlier coverage is no longer available as the previous incarnation of PogoWasRight.org was not importable into WordPress). The whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss private bank has been sentenced to five years in prison by a…
Netherlands: data breach notification duties in effect January 2016
Wouter Seinen of Baker & McKenzie writes: Effective 2016, Netherlands’ businesses must notify the Dutch data protection authority (“DPA”) and sometimes individuals if they suffer certain data breaches that involve personal data under their control. Companies will have to take this seriously, as failure to notify may lead to fines up to €500,000 (or potentially…