Justin Ling reports: Last year, a clever piece of code grabbed the computers of a foreign company, and held them hostage — detaining information on 5,000 Canadian passport applicants in the process. It was another Cryptowall case, but the foreign company was not named, and those Canadians whose passport applications were caught up in the incident…
Category: Non-U.S.
Anonymous claims hack of police servers, releases case data in #OpSingleGateway
The Bangkok Post reports: Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective are claiming they have again penetrated secure Thai government computers, this time leaking private information from Royal Thai Police servers in a continuing protest against plans for a single internet gateway, which the group maintains have not been scrapped. Read more on Bangkok Post.
AU: Telcos and security agencies exempted from data breach rules in draft bill
Paul Farrell reports: Australian law enforcement agencies and telcos that suffer certain types of data breaches are likely to be exempt from rules requiring them to notify the people affected, under a draft bill. The federal government published on Thursday an exposure draft of mandatory data breach laws that would compel Australian companies – and in some…
UK: Crash details sold by Aviva manager to cold callers
As I’ve reported in the past, Aviva has had a few data breaches involving insiders improperly accessing and then selling customer data. A rogue employee involved in such conduct back in 2012 and 2013 is now in court. Sean Poulter reports: A court was told yesterday how Matthew Cooper, 28, abused his position as a manager in…
UK: JD Wetherspoons discloses breach impacting 656,723 customers
Andrew Griffin reports: Wetherspoon’s has been hacked, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of its customers’ information at risk. The pub company said that 650,000 people might have had their personal details leaked, and that the card details of 100 people had been compromised. […] The stolen personal details of the 650,000 people includes the customer’s…
The Barbados Advocate defaced by “Muslim Electronic Army”
Nation News reports that The Barbados Advocate’s web site was defaced. Visitors to the site were reportedly greeted with a pop-up message from the “Muslim Electronic Army.” Then in a profanity-laced note, the hackers urged the newspaper to secure the site while singling out the police and government. They said the next target would be www.gov.bb, government’s…