BBC reports: The head of TalkTalk says she has had an email demanding a ransom from a group purporting to be behind the cyber-attack suffered by the company. Chief executive Dido Harding said she did not know whether the ransom email was genuine. The phone and broadband provider said personal and banking details of up…
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Update: TalkTalk Hacked: 4M Customer Records Stolen In Attack Linked To Islamic Cyberterrorism
David Gilbert reports: TalkTalk, the U.K.-based telecoms company, has admitted that it has suffered its third major cyberattack in the last 12 months with data from its 4 million customers compromised by hackers in a “significant and sustained attack” on its website. In the wake of the admission by TalkTalk, the company’s shares on the London Stock…
Anons blow Japanese airports off-course in dolphin cull protest
John Leyden reports: Hacktivist collective Anonymous knocked offline two of Japan’s busiest websites in a protest against dolphin killings. Distributed denial-of-service attacks against Tokyo’s Narita airport and Nagoya’s Chubu airport left each largely inaccessible for about eight hours. Flights at both airports were unaffected, the Japan Times reports. Read more on The Register.
Ca: Prince Albert Parkland Health Region employee fired for privacy breach
The Prince Albert Daily Herald reports: The Prince Albert Parkland Health Region has fired one employee after an investigation into a year-long privacy breach. The employee was let go after an investigation by the region’s privacy officer. According to the privacy officer, the unnamed employee accessed personal health information from 22 different people over the…
TalkTalk hack attack: customer data stolen
Belfast Telegraph reports: TalkTalk customers are being warned that personal data including details such as names, address, credit card and bank details, may have been stolen by hackers. “We are aware of a small, but nonetheless significant, number of customers who have been directly targeted by these criminals and we have been supporting them directly,”…
UK: Advocates upset at abuse inquiry data loss
Radio New Zealand reports: Child sex abuse survivors in Britain are calling for an investigation after discovering some testimonies may have been deleted due to a technical error. Claims of paedophiles in Westminster in the 1980s sparked the inquiry and cases under investigation could date back to the 1970s. But the inquiry’s website has said…