Asher Moses reports: Vodafone has terminated its dealer agreement with Communications Direct after this website on Friday revealed allegations that staff at the dealer were misusing customer information and forwarding detailed call records outside the company. Staff at the dealer were called in for a meeting this morning and told they would all be losing…
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Two charged over iPad hacking on AT&T network
From Reuters: U.S. prosecutors have charged two men with stealing and distributing email addresses for about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s popular iPad. Investigators accused Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer of using an “account slurper” to conduct a “brute force” attack over five days last June, to extract data about iPad users who accessed the…
New report: Data Breach Notifications in Europe
The EU’s ‘cyber security’ Agency ENISA, (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has today issued a report on Data Breach Notifications. The EU data breach notification (DBN) requirement for the electronic communications sector in the ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC) is vital to increase in the long term the level of data security in Europe. The…
Your personal data in the wrong hands
Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky writes: What happens when all of your personal data is readily available for use by a cybercriminal? Last November we published a blog talking about Brazilian phishing attacks that displayed the victims’ CPF numbers – the Natural Persons Register, the equivalent of a Social Security Number used by the Brazilian government to…
ICO statement on investigation into 2006 FIFA World Cup ticket information disclosure
Mick Gorrill, Head of Enforcement at the ICO, said: “In September 2010, the ICO opened an investigation into allegations that a database containing the personal information of 250,000 individuals who had purchased tickets for football matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup competition in Germany, had been unlawfully sold on the black market. This followed…
Hacked iTunes accounts taken off China e-commerce site
Michael Kan reports the latest on a situation previously covered on this blog. The sale of hacked iTunes accounts in China has been dealt a blow as the Chinese online retailer Taobao.com has decided to remove all product listings relating to the sale of the stolen accounts. Taobao, China’s largest online retailer with 370 million…