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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
Rex Mundi threatens to expose patients’ blood test results if lab doesn’t pay extortion demand (update 1)
Rex Mundi is back again. After hacking Synergie and dumping data from Temporis in January, the hackers, who have made a business of hacking for profit, have announced that they have now hacked a diagnostic laboratory in France, Labio. And once again, they announced the hack on Twitter: Labio.fr hacked last week. 100’s of blood test results in our possession….
KHNP hacker demands money to withhold documents
WNN reports: A hacker who launched a cyber attack on Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) last December has released more files and demanded money in return for not exchanging sensitive information with third countries. From 15 December a group calling itself ‘Who am I = No nuclear power’ began releasing information it obtained from…