Patrick Sawer reports: Criminals are selling the stolen credit and debit card details of 100,000 Britons on the internet in new market said to be “the largest and most brazen of its kind”. For as little as £1.67 banking details stolen from more than a million people worldwide can be bought from the website on…
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Massive number of South African websites hacked by Anonymous
Jan Vermeulen reports: A hacker who identifies with the Anonymous collective Team Hack Argentino, and goes by @TobitowTHA on Twitter, has claimed responsibility for defacing over 200 South African websites. Tobitow posted links to the sites on Twitter, indicating that the defacement was in support of Operation Africa (#OpAfrica). Read more on MyBroadband.
Aide To Stephen McNeil, Nova Scotia Premier, Broke Privacy Laws: Report
Michael Tutton and Michael MacDonald report: The office of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil broke privacy laws when chief of staff Kirby McVicar publicly released sensitive medical information about a former cabinet minister, the province’s privacy commissioner says. McVicar resigned Nov. 24 after stating in several media interviews that Andrew Younger had a brain tumour…
Ex-employee of Yahoo’s Forex broker YJFX stole clients’ data
Maria Nikolova of LeapRate reports that retail Forex broker YJFX, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan Corporation, recently reported that a former employee stole more than 180,000 pieces of information about YJFX clients. The information ranged from transactions details to names of the clients and their bank account data. The information taken by the former employee had reportedly been stored…
Dragon Nest MMO loses two years of player data
Matthew Humphries writes: Massively-multiplayer online games are one of the most difficult games to get right and keep running. Each game needs enough players to cover the costs of renting the servers required to run it, while at the same time there’s a constant demand for new content while keeping the whole system safe and…
ZA: Espionage feared in laptop theft
Mayibongwe Maqhina reports: The DA suspects espionage might be at play in the theft of laptops belonging to members. KwaZulu-Natal DA MPL Francois Rodgers and another staff member lost their laptops and other equipment in separate theft incidents in Kokstad within a month. Rodgers said the home of a party staff member was broken into on…