Thomas Fox-Brewster reports yet another Sony breach that was disclosed in the hackers’ email dump. Prior to the Brazil breach in February 2014 (also revealed in corporate emails and also not disclosed publicly by Sony at the time), there was apparently an incident involving their German web site in January: … An email from Courtney…
Category: Non-U.S.
Agency Allowed Google To Index Info About Serbian Citizens
InSerbia reports: BELGRADE – Agency for Privatization published, unauthorized, information about 5,190,396 citizens of Serbia, on its website with more than four thousand financial documents, Share foundation confirmed today. The text database with information (in total about 19 GB of content) was publicly available on the official website of the Agency for Privatization, Share foundation…
Luxleaks: Former PwC employee admits he took tax files
Colm Keena reports: A 28-year old French man who took confidential files from the offices of his then employers, PricewaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg, has said he believes he is not the only source behind last month’s Luxleaks disclosures. Antoine Deltour, who was charged by an investigating magistrate in Luxembourg at the weekend in relation to the copying…
AU: Centrelink’s slap on the wrist for shocking privacy breach
Noel Towell reports: A Centrelink manager who left dozens of sensitive client files on public transport earlier this year has been let off with a small fine and a reprimand. Departmental insiders say client’s private financial data is still being routinely carried around on trains and buses in and around the Queensland capital despite the…
The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco, Belgacom
Ryan Gallagher reports: When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. It was in the summer…
Rex Mundi reportedly leaking employee info
Belsec Blog has more details, but it looks like Tobasco.be and Z-Staffing.org are having their data leaked because they didn’t meet Rex Mundi’s demands. The data leak reportedly does not include national registry numbers, but the hackers are believed to be in possession of bank account numbers that have not (yet?) been leaked. Belsec Blog…