Ian Drury reports on the results of a FOIA investigation by Big Brother Watch: Bungling councils have lost or wrongly shared the sensitive personal information of tens of thousands of people, a damning report reveals today. Officials breach data rules at least four times a day, often involving the confidential details – including medical records…
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UK: No action over Hartlepool council data breaches (update2)
Back in March, the Information Commissioner’s Office ordered Hartlepool NHS Foundation to review its data protection after a breach involving sensitive information. But the Trust wasn’t the only Hartlepool government entity with data protection issues. As Fiona Thompson reports, Hartlepool Borough Council employees were also responsible for breaches. But unlike the Trust, no action has been…
Facebook hacker arrested in Bangladesh
Here’s a recent news item I missed from Bangladesh: The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a hacker, who has so far hacked 100 Facebook accounts especially of female users to blackmail them, in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday. Mahmudul Hasan, 20, a fourth semester computer science and technology student of East-West University, hacked FB…
Carphone Warehouse coughs to MEGA data breach hitting up to 2.4 MEELLION customers (Update2)
Kelly Fiveash reports: Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked. The company said in a statement on Saturday afternoon that it had first discovered its systems…
UK: Job recruiters network JobsatTEAM hacked
Another day, another SQLinjection attack by JM511 (@JM511 on Twitter). This time, it’s U.K. site, jobsatteam.com. TEAM describes themselves as the largest network of independent job recruiters. JM511 dumped the administrator’s table with 12 individuals’ email addresses, usernames, passwords, full names, and telephone numbers. There’s also a dump of 2,590 members’ names, usernames, passwords (some unencrypted),…
Man affiliated with Anonymous #OpAustralia returns to court August 11th
DataBreaches.net has previously reported on the case of Mathew Hutchison, a young Australian who found himself on the wrong side of the law for attempting to redirect the Indonesian faction of Anonymous away from businesses and not-for-profits in Australia. Hutchison ran afoul of Australian law because videos that he uploaded to YouTube in the name of #OpAustralia and chats…