Jos Floor of Floor Swart writes: South Africa has a historical culture of non-disclosure and cover-ups when it comes to data loss and data breaches – but, the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will force much greater transparency. The Act establishes eight data protection principles or conditions, one of which is that responsible parties…
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NZ: Preliminary review reveals no improper data access to shared online medical records
Nicole Mathewson reports that so far, everyone’s been on good behavior and has not misused access to the online database: Nearly 500 instances of Canterbury health professionals accessing patient medical records have been reviewed since the country’s first online health database was launched, but all were found to be legitimate queries. … The Canterbury District…
Teenagers Suspected of Hacking Belgian and French Websites
AFP reports: Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. “The regional unit of computer crime managed …to identify the presumed perpetrators” of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement. The attacks were launched against the websites of Le…
FBI watched as NullCrew dumped Bell Canada passwords online
Andrew Seymour reports: When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager,…
7.85 million IDs, passwords found on seized proxy servers in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun is reporting a significant data theft case affecting as many as 5.06 million people who used online shopping and other web sites in Japan. The Metropolitan Police Department said that the IDs and passwords were found on computer servers it seized in relation to alleged unauthorized access via proxy servers by a Chinese…
Hackers break into Lufthansa customer database
Looks like I prepared this but forgot to post it last week. Let’s get caught up: DW reports that Lufthansa airline has experienced a hack involving its frequent flyer or rewards program. But unlike other airlines that reported similar breaches, in this case, other databases were also seemingly involved and the hackers were able to obtain…