Tuoi Tre News reports: More than 50,000 accounts of customers of Vietnam’s state-run telecom giant VNPT were stolen and leaked on the Internet over the weekend, company spokesperson Bui Quoc Viet said Sunday. The accounts, including personal information and login credentials, belong to customers of the VNPT branch in the southern province of Soc Trang,…
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Computer Hack in Kazakhstan Exposes Client Emails with Curtis
The American Lawyer reports: Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its client, the Republic of Kazakhstan, after the Gmail accounts and computers of several government officials were hacked and their contents posted online, exposing communications between the officials and the firm. New York-based Curtis litigation partner Jacques Semmelman, who…
Data leak scandal involving personal info of 872 children suppressed, lawyer claims
Today’s Zaman has more on a leak previously noted on this site: A scandal in which the sensitive personal information of more than 850 children was deliberately leaked to a government website has been suppressed, according to the head of a leading children’s rights organization in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. Bayram Koluman, the head…
Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
Waqas writes: … Tatiana Kulikova is nothing like a compassionate paramedic. The 25 year-old Tatiana has been fired by health officers after viewing the pictures she posted online taken in the back of an ambulance. There are several utterly sickening selfies posted by Tatiana. In one of the images, the Russian blonde can be seen…
PWC firm employee involved in document leak: CBI
From India’s Central Bureau of Investigation: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Under Secretary in Department of Disinvestment & Section Officer in Department of Economic Affairs both of Union Ministry of Finance and a Consultant / Chartered Accountant (private person) based at Mumbai in a case relating to alleged leakage and supply of…
SG: Is that your name, address, phone number in the dump?
Grace Chng reports: Personal information is still being improperly collected, used and disposed of, even though there is a new law to protect personal data. Seventy organisations – especially those in retail, healthcare and property – are under investigation following complaints that they used e-mail addresses and other personal information for marketing purposes or collected…