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…
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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…
Banque Cantonale de Geneve Leak – Rex Mundi (update2)
As seen on DPaste this morning and as tweeted by @RexMundi14: Dear friends and foes, Last week, we hacked our way into the servers of Swiss bank Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE). While we did not access any bank account, we did download 30,192 private emails sent by both Swiss and foreign customers, in addition…
Hirsche Private Asset Emergency Announcement Regarding Breach of IT Security by Hacker Group
ZHONGZHENG DISTRICT, Taiwan, Jan. 7, 2015/PRNewswire/ — The company is currently investigating the malicious attacks that have shut down the ITs infrastructure. Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. urgently asks any clientele that are contacted by third parties not known to them to ignore any information requests or offers. Client data is thought to have been exposed and…