Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé of DLA Piper write: …. In order to help organizations perform secure personal data processing and improve the overall digital security in France, the ANSSI has made available on its website (in French), a practical tool supplementing the French data protection supervisory authority’s (CNIL) own guidelines and recommendations on how…
Hacker Defaces Ticketfly’s Website, Steals Customer Database
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A hacker briefly took over Ticketfly’s website, defacing it with a picture of the V for Vendetta character and a claim of responsibility. The hacker also sent Motherboard files of what they say is employee and customer information taken from Ticketfly’s database. “Ticketfly HacKeD By IsHaKdZ,” read the message, according to a…
Ca: Sooke School District warns parents of privacy breach
BC Local News reports: The Sooke School District is warning parents about a privacy invasion after an employee’s email was hacked. “It has been discovered that the email account of a staff member was compromised by someone outside of the district and used to email out a spam informational link to other staff. Approximately 15…
‘Embarrassing’ leak shows EU falls short of own GDPR data law
Margi Murphy Ben Riley-Smith report: The European Commission has claimed it is not subject to the strict new data protection law that it has imposed across Europe, following an “embarrassing” leak of personal data on its website. Officials in Brussels admitted the bureaucracy that designed the rules is not itself compliant with the General Data Protection…
Hackers threaten to reveal personal data of 90,000 Canadians caught in bank hack
Pete Evans reports: Hackers have threatened to release personal information for nearly 100,000 customers of two Canadian banks unless the lenders pay a $1-million ransom for its safe return. On Monday, Bank of Montreal and online bank Simplii Financial — owned by CIBC — revealed that they learned over the weekend that the identifying personal information of a combined 90,000 different…
Oxnard city officials investigate data breach
Jeremy Childs reports: Oxnard city officials learned of a data breach last week that may have affected the personal data of utility customers in the city. On Friday, the city was contacted by a bank representative about fraudulent purchases being made with the cards people used to pay their utility bills using the city’s Click2Gov (Superion) online payment…