Bill Dolan reports: The Lake Ridge School Corp. has had another financial setback only weeks after voters declined to provide more tax revenue to the struggling institution. The school district recently lost a legal battle with a New York bank to recover more than $120,000 stolen two years ago by an offshore computer hacker. School…
Noida: Two leak legal firm’s data to former employee, held
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…