Pam Kragen reports: The city of Oceanside has shut down its online bill-paying system for utility customers while it investigates a possible data breach of customers’ account and credit card information. Twenty-five residents who recently paid their water, sewer or trash bills through the city’s online portal contacted the city on Aug. 13 to report…
Indian Bank faulted for losing customer’s net banking credentials
Vinson Kurian reports: At a time when threats to data security have taken centre-stage, a public sector bank has been faulted for ‘causing harassment’ to a customer whose net banking credentials were compromised for no fault of his. Acting on a complaint from Balaji Srinivasan, a Hyderabad-based software engineer, the Central Information Commission (CIC) chastised…
Hacker Nets over $500,000 after Hacking Enigma before ICO Date
Francisco Memoria reports: Last month, CCN reported on CoinDash’s ICO being hacked. Hackers managed to change the address on its website and made over $9 million. Now, despite not making as much money, a hacker managed to compromise Enigma before its ICO in a similar way, and has netted over 1,500 Ether (over $500,000) from…
Labor Department blames data breach for shutdown of employee injury reporting site
Jennifer Gollan has more on a situation previously noted on this site. Once again, the nation’s top workplace safety regulator has a message for employers: “Don’t send us your injury logs.” But rather than bureaucratic red tape, this time the online filing system is hamstrung by a data breach. The Labor Department on Wednesday temporarily…
Is The Hutchins Indictment Over Malware Unconstitutional?
Alex Berengaut of Covington & Burling analyzes some of the legal issues raised by the indictment of Marcus Hutchins (@malwaretechblog) for allegedly creating and conspiring to sell malware known as the Kronos banking trojan. He writes, in part: Since Hutchins’ indictment, commentators have questioned whether the creation and selling of malware—without actually using the malware—violates…
AU: OAIC investigating Flight Centre customer data leak
Allie Coyne reports: Travel agency Flight Centre is under investigation by the country’s privacy regulator after accidentally releasing personal information of an undisclosed number of its customers to third-party suppliers. The firm confirmed last month that “human error” was behind the data breach. It has not said how many customers were affected, nor what personal…