Lucian Constantin reports: A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business clients. The antivirus company confirmed the security breach but said in an emailed statement that the attack affected less than 1 percent of its SMB customers, whose passwords…
Category: Non-U.S.
PagerDuty hacked … and finally comes clean 21 days later. Cheers
Alexander J. Martin reports: Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company’s systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident. ‘Fessing up to the…
South Korea: Major health data breach hits sector ‘weak’ in compliance
Rocio Galeote has more on the case in South Korea that involves the allegedly illegal sale of prescription information to IMS Health Korea and the transfer of that info to IMS Health in the U.S., etc. The breach impacts 43 – 44 million Koreans. I still haven’t seen anyone name the systems developer who’s also charged…
UK: Community Transport (Brighton,Hove & Area) Ltd signs undertaking after ICO investigation reveals data protection deficiencies
The Information Commissioner (ICO) was informed on February 12, 2015 that a removable hard drive containing personal data had been taken home by a member of staff and that the employee had subsequently failed to return it. The removable hard drive contained a back-up of Community Transport Ltd’s customer database, which contained 4,138 individual records….
Ca: Toronto man arrested following identity theft investigation
CityNews reports: After a two-month investigation, Halton police have charged a 48-year-old Toronto man with making identity information available for a fraudulent purpose. Moussa Kante, a former employee of GM Financial, was allegedly providing customers’ identity information to counterfeiters. Read more on CityNews.
UK: Confusion over patient data on lost hospital stick
It seemed like a straightforward breach disclosure, but apparently there’s still some confusion swirling around what happened with an East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust USB stick that was found by a member of the public. The Eastbourne Herald reports: The husband of a woman whose confidential patient details were found on a memory stick which…