In today’s installment, Boomerang offers customers “£12 worth of Payback Points and Exclusive Access to Bonus Games,” but there’s no mention as to whether they’ve confirmed they had a security breach (previous coverage here). Of course, some forensic investigations take more time than customers would like, but there is absolutely no statement that I can see…
Category: Non-U.S.
France sees 19,000 cyberattacks since terror rampage
Jamey Keaten and Sylvie Corbet of AP report: Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions. Read more on Army Times.
Personal banking info sold to highest bidder in China
From the that’s-not-good dept.: Leaks of personal credit card information have become increasingly serious in China, reports the Beijing Times. The stolen information is sold online and priced differently according to its “quality.” Secondhand information that has previously been sold is priced at 0.35 yuan (US$0.06) per item whereas info on platinum card users can…
Weak state servers breach causes mass identity theft in Turkey; over 50 million citizens’ identity info stolen
Hasan Bozkurt reports: The Presidency’s State Audit Institution (DDK) has revealed that the state failed to protect Turkish citizens’ ID information. The servers of the administration’s website has been easily breached, ID information of citizens have been stolen. These include the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs, the General Directorate of Land Registry and…
UK: Sensitive personal data exposed in Open Datasets
If at first you don’t succeed, persist. And blog. Jon Baines writes: Imagine, if you will, a public authority which decides to publish as Open Data a spreadsheet of 6000 individual records of adults receiving social services support. Each row tells us an individual service user’s client group (e.g. “dementia” or “learning disability”), age range (18-64, 65-84, 84 and over),…
‘Burglar’s shopping list’ security flaw fixed
Dave Lee reports: An online service recommended by most of the UK’s police forces has fixed a privacy flaw after being alerted by a security expert. Immobilise allows members of the public to add records to the National Property Register, detailing valuables in their homes. But security consultant Paul Moore discovered a flaw that made it…