Adam Straker reports: One of the great fears of any company is that it will be affected by a cyber attack. The presence of malware on a company’s computer equipment can be fatal by producing stoppages in production, the impossibility of accessing their records and even the danger of the personal data of its clients. But now a new…
Category: Non-U.S.
Banks, Institutions Pay Over N200m Fines for Exposing Privacy Rights of Nigerians
Victor Enengedi reports: A total sum exceeding N200 million has been collected by the Federal Government from at least seven banks and various other institutions. The Federal Government collected these payments from these financial institutions as a consequence of their infringement upon the data privacy rights of Nigerian citizens. Read more at Legit. (If I’m…
Former RAIDforums member “DataBox” sentenced to prison by Amsterdam court
A former member of RAIDForums was sentenced to prison today by an Amsterdam court. The 25-year-old man, Erkan Sezgin, was known as “DataBox” on RAIDforums when he listed the data of millions of Austrians for sale. Sezgin, who was employed as a data engineer at Matrixian Group, was arrested in November 2022 and detained until…
Ie: Data breach at Public Appointments Service involving 15,000 people
Emmet Ryan reports: The personal information of 15,471 candidates for public roles has been released in error by the Public Appointments Service (PAS). A message was sent to the affected candidates through the publicjobs.ie portal notifying the candidates affected their names and jobs alert notifications they had subscribed to may have been provided to other…
Detained for DDoS attacks as part of the next edition of the international “Power Off” operation
The following is a machine translation into English of a press release issued by the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime. The original Polish version can be found at https://cbzc.policja.gov.pl/bzc/aktualnosci/162,Zatrzymani-do-sprawy-atakow-DDoS-w-ramach-kolejnej-edycji-miedzynarodowej-operac.html Date of publication 06/16/2023 Police officers of the Bydgoszcz Department of the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime, in cooperation with the District Prosecutor’s Office in Bydgoszcz,…
Canada: PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012
Greg Davis reports an update to a breach case that DataBreaches has been covering since 2012. For previous coverage, search this site for “Peterborough Regional.” A proposed settlement of $988,550 has been reached in a class-action lawsuit relating to patient health records being wrongfully accessed by former employees at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre more than a…