Rachelle Younglai reports: Detour Gold Corp. is reaching out to former and current employees to tell them that their personal information may have been compromised due to a cyber attack. Detour, which operates one gold mine in Ontario, did not say when its server was hacked or how many employees have been affected by the…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: CSIS website crashed by hacker yet again
Emily Campbell reports: For the second time in less than 2 weeks, the CSIS website has been brought to it’s (sic) knees by a cyber attack. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s website along with multiple other Canadian government websites were taken down 12 days ago. Internet vigilante group Anonymous took credit for those earlier attacks….
UK: Merseyside PC appears in court on computer snooping charges
John Siddle reports: A Merseyside PC accused of snooping on the force’s computer systems is to stand trial. PC Paula Humphreys, 43, was suspended from duty after being charged in May with Data Protection Act offences. Humphreys, of Glentrees Road, West Derby, is accused of “knowingly or recklessly” obtaining personal data on four occasions. Read more…
Suspected Pro-Kremlin ‘Hell’ Hacker Denies Allegations in German Court
Daria Litvinova reports: Following years of hacking attacks on the online accounts of various Russian opposition figures, a man suspected of being the notorious hacker known as “Hell” — who is believed to have ties to Russian officialdom — is currently standing trial in Germany. The man in the dock of a Bonn court is Sergei Maximov, 41, a German national of Russian descent. He is charged with the theft and deletion of data,…
Ca: Cop loses 3 days pay after breaching privacy rules
Corey Larocque reports: Snooping through confidential police records and relating their contents to a friend will cost Ottawa Police Const. Jennifer Finniss three days’ pay and force her to stay home for 20 days. Even though her motivation was to help a friend, Finniss, an 18-year veteran cop, “should have known better” than to make…
UK: Norfolk County Council sells filing cabinet with confidential information still inside
Dan Grimmer reports: New figures have revealed the number of data breaches at local authorities in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire over the past year, with more than 200 incidents where information councils are entrusted with was not handled properly. One of the most shocking blunders came in Norfolk where confidential files containing details of adults…