Kim Tae-jong reports: Potentially hundreds of thousands of expatiates have been left out in cold in the largest financial data theft case in Korea’s history. Financial regulators as well as credit card firms and their parent banks have not provided any services for foreign credit card holders to check whether their data was leaked, nor…
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20 million people fall victim to South Korea data leak; FSS calls on financial institutions to improve protections against insider leaks
AFP reports: The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers’ data leaked in recent years, either by hacking attacks or their own employees. In…
Crime victims’ and witnesses’ sensitive information on devices stolen from researcher’s university office
Brian Bakst of AP reports: A University of Minnesota law professor has apologized to violent crime victims and witnesses after a computer with sensitive information of nearly 300 people was stolen from his office, but he said Friday that there’s no indication the thief has accessed the data. Criminologist Barry Feld, a prominent juvenile justice…
Target Hackers Wrote Partly in Russian, Displayed High Skill, Report Finds
Danny Yadron reports: The holiday data breach at Target Corp. appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, according to a report prepared by federal and private investigators that was sent to financial-services companies and retailers. The report offers some of the first details to emerge about the source…
Tokyo ordered to pay damages to Muslim victims of privacy breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach covered previously on this site involving a data leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 90 million yen (around $860,000) in damages to 17 Muslims for the breach of privacy lawsuit they filed against the city. Around 114 documents were leaked…
Reuters sources: Other US retailers victims of cyberattacks
Jim Finkle and Mark Hosenball of Reuters report: Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season late last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed. Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known…