Jan Vermeulen of MyBroadband reports: First National Bank’s online card tracking facility exposed the names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and delivery addresses of clients to anyone who knows what the reference number for the tracking service looks like. These reference numbers are sequential, so if you know one it is very easy to guess others…
Category: Non-U.S.
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…
NZ: Legal firm divulges private files
Phil Kitchin reports: A lawyer’s practice used clients’ sensitive files as recycling paper for photocopying – and posted out hundreds of pages of private and confidential details about their cases. The details, sent to a former client who requested a copy of her own file, include names and addresses of people involved in suppressed court…
Oz privacy comish says breaches could double this year
Darren Pauli reports: The office of Australia’s Federal Privacy Commissioner has received 60 voluntary data breach notifications in the six months since 12 March compared to 71 received in the 2014 financial year. The statistics provide to Vulture South and repeated at the Australian Information Security Association conference include all manner of consumer and staff privacy exposures…
‘LulzSec leader Aush0k’ found to be naughty boy not worthy of jail
Richard Chirgwin reports: The man that Australia’s Federal Police once described as “a self-proclaimed leader of the group ‘Lulz Security’ (Lulzsec) has been sentenced to 15 months of home detention, after a local magistrate decided he was just a very naughty boy. Flannery was sentenced last week in a case that has to date evaded…
JP: Ex-systems engineer arrested over doctors’ data leak
Kyodo News reports: Police on Tuesday arrested a former employee of a Tokyo medical recruitment agency on suspicion of illegally copying the personal data of around 17,000 doctors and nurses. Kengo Mikami, 36, is suspected of copying the confidential information on or around May 30, 2012, while working as a systems engineer for the company…