Robin Levinson King reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog says it will investigate the security breach at Toronto-based Ashley Madison after hackers apparently exposed private information about millions of the adultery website’s users. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner “has commenced an investigation into the matter concerning (Ashley Madison owner) Avid Life Media,” spokesperson Valerie Lawton said…
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UK: Data breach by holiday firm Thomson exposes hundreds of passengers
BBC reports: A data protection breach by holiday company Thomson revealed the home addresses, telephone numbers and flight dates of nearly 500 customers. An email seen by the BBC shows the personal details of 458 people from across the UK were shared on 15 August. […] A statement from the company said: “We are aware…
JP: Pension data leak points to deeply flawed security culture
The Asahi Shimbun has an editorial about the Japan Pension Service leak reported previously on this blog. The editorial begins: Two reports have been released about the leak of personal data concerning 1.25 million or so people from the Japan Pension Service’s computer system due to a security breach caused by e-mails containing computer viruses….
Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: ‘Nobody Was Watching’
Joseph Cox of Motherboard got the exclusive interview of the week – with Impact Team, the hackers behind the AshleyMadison.com hack. Here’s a snippet of the email interview: MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and found nothing…
Allegations of British Airways data breach denied by airline
It started with Times of India reporting: Delhi Police have detained a hacker and are conducting further raids in connection with alleged hacking into the British Airways’ systems wherein crooks siphoned off millions of “mileage points” worth several millions pounds belonging to its fliers. Scores of fliers complained to the airline of losing their travel…
Anonymous Hacks South African Government Contractor for #OpMonsanto
Waqas reports: Anonymous conducted the attack under the banner of #OperationSA and #OpMonsanto in which the prime target of the attack was South African government contractor IT company’s subsidiaries “State Information Technology Agency (SITA).” SITA suffered a massive breach on 12th August in which Anonymous accessed its online servers and leaked a trove of confidential data over…