Sam Varghese reports: A public server belonging to Linux Australia, the umbrella group for Linux user groups in the country, were breached on March 22, and the personal information of members may have been stolen. Detailing the breach in a post to the main mailing list, the organisation’s president, Joshua Hesketh, wrote yesterday that the breach had…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: 1 conviction for every 100,000 computer crimes?
Here’s a depressing statistic: one computer hacker a month is convicted of cyber crime under the Computer Misuse Act out of 100,000 incidents a year.
In: Chennai engineer gets 2-yrs jail for hacking, data theft
A court here has sentenced a Chennai-based software professional to two years’ rigorous imprisonment for hacking servers of a local firm and stealing confidential data. The court had on March 31 found Prabhakar Sampath guilty under Section 66 of Information Technology Act. Apart from the jail term, the court also imposed a fine of Rs…
UK: Cybercrim told to cough up £1m or spend years in chokey
Alexander J. Martin reports: A cybercriminal from Thamesmead has been given six months to turn up £1m, or he’ll be spending another four years behind bars. Rilwan Adesegun Oshodi – a 31-year-old Nigerian national, formerly of Greenhaven Drive, Thamesmead, SE28 – is currently enjoying Her Majesty’s hospitality for conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder…
Aussie teen hacker Abdilo’s home raided, and he’s ordered to turn over his passwords and decryption keys
Will Ockenden and Benjamin Sveen report that the teenage hacker known as “Abdilo” had his home raided by Australian law enforcement in a pre-dawn raid. DataBreaches.net has reported on a number of Abdilo’s claimed hacks, which included an Australian travel insurance company, the University of Sydney, and numerous educational institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere. Most of his…
UK: Policeman handed absolute discharge for breaching data protection act
Rebecca Buchan reports: A policeman who searched his work computer database for restricted information about his sisters has been handed an absolute discharge. During the course of one day, Keith Knowles accessed seven crime files while at work at Woodhill House, Westburn Road. The documents – relating to his siblings Lynn Robertson and Veronica Knowles…