TNN reports: Two business associates of a legal service provider have been arrested for allegedly leaking confidential data of the company and its clients, mostly based abroad, to a former employee. Officials of the company said they came to know that Umar Ikhlaq, who had resigned from the firm to join another Mumbai-based company in…
AU: ‘Appalling’ emergency services data breach to be investigated
Matilda Boseley & Simone Fox Koob report on a breach of sensitive information in Victoria: The state government will launch an immediate investigation into an “appalling” data breach that saw personal details of emergency services staff posted to the web. The breach reportedly occurred in October and saw private details – including addresses and medical…
Brazilian personal data was exposed….. again
Bob Diachenko recently reported on yet another massive data exposure: On November 12th, when auditing the search results for open/exposed Elasticsearch databases with Binaryedge.ioplatform, we have found what appeared to be a collection of personal records compiled by FIESP, the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo. FIESP is the largest class entity…
Mt: Massive Lands Authority security flaw dumps personal data online
Jacob Borg and Claire Caruana report: A massive security flaw in the Lands Authority’s website has inadvertently dumped a huge amount of personal data online, a joint investigation by Times of Malta and The Shift News has found. Identity card details, e-mail correspondence, affidavits and other compromising data were made easily searchable on the internet…
Hackers offer ‘Black Friday’ discounts for stolen credit card details
Matthew Field reports: Hackers are offering Black Friday discounts for stolen credit card details being bought and sold on the dark web as they seek to cash in on an online shopping bonanza. Security experts including the FBI, the UK’s cyber defence agency and online security firms have warned of a wave of hacking and fraud as criminals…
PageUp investigation found no evidence of data theft, company says
Rohan Pearce has an update to a breach that was first disclosed in June, 2018: HR software company PageUp says that a forensic expert it engaged to examine its systems has found “no specific evidence” that data was stolen during a security breach earlier this year. Read more on Computerworld.