Three men affiliated with Anonymous Australia are facing jail time: one for incitement, and two for serious hacking charges that could send each man to prison for many years. DataBreaches.net started looking into all three cases and how the men’s paths crossed. In this post, we provide some background and details on one of the cases. Future posts will…
Category: Non-U.S.
Macedonian prosecutor indicts opposition leader in wiretap scandal
Kole Casule reports: The Macedonian state prosecutor formally indicted the country’s top opposition politician late on Thursday over his role in a surveillance scandal that challenged the nine-year rule of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. For months Zoran Zaev, the leader of the opposition Social Democrats has been publishing wire-taps he says he received from a…
UK: Dumfries and Galloway Council data breach actions accepted
An update from the BBC about a breach I hadn’t spotted before: The Information Commissioner’s Office has said it is satisfied with Dumfries and Galloway Council’s actions in the wake of a data protection breach. It followed the inadvertent release of personal information which was later posted on the internet. It is understood that the…
Ca: Privacy commissioner investigating Sask. premier’s office
Mike McKinnon reports: The office of Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has officially launched an investigation into an alleged privacy breach by the premier’s office. Peter Bowden, a health care aide who went public on March 30 with concerns about the Saskatoon care home he works at, accused Premier Brad Wall and his chief of operations and communications, Kathy Young,…
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running…
MASSIVE FAIL: Indian gov DOXXES net neutrality campaigners; Gets DDoSed by @opindia_revenge in response.
Alexander J. Martin reports: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dumped more than a million Indian netizens’ traceable personal details online, after it decided to publish, in full, the emails it received as part of its consultation paper about net neutrality. Obviously deeply convinced by last week’s arguments for transparency in internet governance, the Telecom Regulatory…