The Gleaner reports a follow-up on an unsecured storage server exposing personal information and COVID-related information of travelers to Jamaica. The exposed bucket was first reported by Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch on February 17: The storage server, hosted on Amazon Web Services, was set to public. It’s not known for how long the data was…
NurseryCam discloses a breach
DataBreaches.net recently noted some research by SafetyDetective about whether baby cams were posing privacy and security risks. Today, BBC reports: A webcam system that lets parents drop in and watch their children while at nursery school has written to families to tell them of a data breach. NurseryCam said it did not believe the incident…
India’s cyber defenses breached and reported; govt. yet to fix it
John Xavier reports that India’s government has been slow to respond to a report by ethical hackers that had been shared with the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3): which initiated contact with the India’s National Critical Infrastructure Information Protection Centre (NCIIPC). Following this, the security team shared its 34-page threat report to…
Personal info compromised at 88 firms in Japan in 2020
Let’s see how things are doing elsewhere. JiJi reports: Personal information was compromised or lost at a total of 88 publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries in Japan in 2020, the highest number since such data began being collected in 2012, according to a survey by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. In total, personal information on…
IT: Guarantor for privacy: two hospitals and one AUSL sanctioned
Marco De Felice reports: The Guarantor for privacy has sanctioned two hospitals and an AUSL, they had communicated medical information to the wrong people. The three structures fined are the Sienese University Hospital , the University Hospital of Parma and the Romagna Local Health Authority . The two hospitals received a fine of €10,000, while for the Romagna AUsl the fine was €50,000. ……
Nigerian Influencer Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas Laundered Funds For North Korean Hackers, Says U.S. Department Of Justice
David Dawkins reports: New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle. In July, Abbas was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles with conspiring to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from ‘“business email compromise”’ (BEC) frauds and other…