Sean O’Shea reports that when a realtor’s gmail account was hacked, it cost a home purchaser $10,000 – $10,000 that the agent and her realty firm won’t compensate. The young home buyer, Kaitlyn DiMarco, says that after she purchased a home, she received an email – purportedly from her realtor – telling her that it would cost $10,000…
Category: Non-U.S.
Singapore: New Advisory Guidelines and Resources Available
The Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore has issued new advisory guidelines and resources, particularly for SMEs. Some of them pertain to protecting electronic personal data and managing data breaches. You can access the guidelines on their site, but here are direct links to a few of them that may be of interest: Is Personal Data Safe With…
Ca: Newfoundland patient data breach investigated (updated)
The Canadian Press reports: A health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador is investigating a breach of confidentiality after a document containing patient information was picked up off hospital property in Grand Falls-Windsor. Central Health CEO Rosemarie Goodyear says the document obtained by a local news outlet had information on 16 patients, including name, age and…
Ca: Prime Minister’s Office removes videos from online site which may show soldiers’ faces
A series of videos distributed by the Prime Minister’s Office, some of which showed the faces of the country’s special forces soldiers, were abruptly pulled offline early Tuesday in an embarrassing security breach. The videos, on Stephen Harper’s official 24-Seven feed, were taken during his recent whirlwind trip to Iraq and Kuwait, where the travelling media were…
6 Vietnamese face theft charges for using stolen credit card data
Dam Huy reports: Ho Chi Minh City police are seeking theft charges against six members of a gang that purchased stolen credit card data online and then used the card numbers to buy goods from the US. The six, aged 26-31, face charges of “using the Internet to appropriate property.” According to police investigations, Nguyen…
Ca: More data dumped from Detour Gold
I had told Detour Gold to keep an eye out for future data dumps when I spoke with them weeks ago to notify them that they had been hacked, and I wasn’t surprised to receive an email last night from someone pointing me to a new data dump. The data dump includes personal information on employees as well…