Waqas reports: Anonymous hacktivist breached a government of Chile website and leaked login details of officials in support of student protests against the government’s education policy. Read more on HackRead.
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Welsh police force fined £160,000 for loss of DVDs with sex abuse victim interview
The ICO has hit South Wales Police with a £160,000 fine for losing a video recording which formed part of the evidence in a sexual abuse case. Three DVDs (one master and two copies) contained video of an August 2011 interview with a victim who had been sexually abused as a child. The victim’s face showed in the…
AU: Dishonest police officers caught snooping or sharing Victorians’ private information
Peter Mickelburough reports: Dishonest cops are being caught snooping or passing on secrets in growing numbers despite the force’s efforts to protect the private information of millions of Victorians. Complaints of police abusing information were up 54 per cent in the 21 months to September 2014 on the rate in 2012, while proven cases doubled. The…
Meru Cabs was exposing customer data
I had missed this one, but DataBreachToday has a write-up about the exposure of Meru Cabs customer data due to logs from its mobile app not being secured. The exposed data in the logs “included customers’ personally identifiable information, including mobile numbers, email addresses, pickup and drop locations, masked credit-card numbers, payment notification logs, Meru booking…
Hanoi IT engineers arrested for stealing, selling credit card info
Thanh Nien News reports: The Hanoi police have arrested three young IT engineers who allegedly hacked into tens of thousands of credit cards and sold the information for more than VND400 million (US$18,380). Le Van Nguyen, Nguyen Trong Hong, and Dang Quang Thanh Thanh, all 25, graduated from a university in information technology and have…
Naikon Hackers Take Aim At Asia-Pacific Nations, Warns Kaspersky
Tom Jowitt reports: Security specialists Kaspersky Lab has warned of an active hacker collective that goes by the name of Naikon and is targeting a number of countries in the South China Sea area. The group has apparently infiltrated a number of government, civil and military organisations in countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam,…