There’s an update to a breach reported earlier this year. Telegraph & Argus reports: A Morrisons employee has been charged with fraud after an investigation into the theft of payroll data from the supermarket firm relating to thousands of members of staff. Andrew Skelton has also been charged with an offence under the Computer Misuse Act and…
Category: Non-U.S.
For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard.
Andrew Higgins reports: He reveled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even his nationality, never mind his identity. Early this year, however, the elusive online outlaw known as Guccifer…
Ca: Edmonton Police Service apologizes for mailing staff info to man in U.S.
Julia Parrish reports: The Edmonton Police Service has apologized for a security breach that saw personal information of some staff and volunteers sent to a man in the United States. David Henderson, a former CBS News correspondent, who now works as a crisis and strategic communications advisor, told CTV News he’s trying to draw attention to…
Australian Federal Police methods under question after ‘LulzSec hacker’ claims he was wrongly accused
Conor Duffy reports: A man described by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as being the leader of the notorious international hacking group LulzSec says the AFP’s claims are based on a single joke Facebook message. A 7.30 investigation has found a teenage accomplice was actually responsible for the hack and was raided by police but…
Privacy breach at U. of Toronto
Alex McKeen reports: On October 29, some students received e-mails from the University of Toronto enrollment services indicating that they were awarded funding through University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) only to find that they had also been sent 179 files containing sensitive information that was not theirs. […] The 179 files that…
KR: College student arrested for hacking 104 websites
Koh Seok-Seung reports: The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that it has arrested a 20-year-old college student yesterday on the suspicion of hacking 104 websites across 24 countries in a bid to show off his technical prowess. The student, surnamed Jang, collected 280,000 pieces of information from November 2013 to August by hacking various…