Dark Reading reports: A federal court sentenced a Tennessee man to an 18-month prison sentence and ordered him to pay $172,394 in restitution, following his breach into a former employer’s network and copying of emails in order to give his new company a competitive edge, according to the US Department of Justice. Jason Needham, 45,…
Italian bank UniCredit admits data breaches affecting 400,000 customers
Luke Irwin reports: UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, has admitted that it suffered two data breaches in the past year, affecting 400,000 customers in total. In a statement, the bank confirmed that no passwords were stolen in the attacks, which occurred between September and October of 2016 and then June and July this year. UniCredit did…
Turkish hackers attack Armenian webpages again
Public Radio of Armenia reports: Turkish hackers continue to attack the Armenian virtual territory, Artsakhpress reports. Supporting Azerbaijani hackers, Turkish hackers have attacked seven Armenian websites, information security expert Samvel Martirosyan said. “Those are substantially touristic websites. The Official webpage of the Development Foundation of Armenia is among the cracked websites”, he said. The hackers…
NZ: Medical clinic breaches 1000 people’s privacy
Otago Daily Times reports: About 1000 people’s privacy was breached in an email sent out by a medical clinic. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards tweeted about the breach this morning, imploring people to be careful. “Come on people, it’s not rocket surgery!” part of the tweet said. Further information from the commission showed the privacy of…
AU: Blood Service escapes penalties in data breach investigation
Allie Coyne reports: The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and its website contractor have escaped penalties from the country’s privacy watchdog over a 2016 data breach that exposed the data of 550,000 donors. In late October last year the Blood Service revealed its website partner Precedent had inadvertently exposed a 1.74GB database backup containing 1.28 million…
Car lease companies’ poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers
DutchNews.nl reports: Cyber security at some 50 car lease companies operating in the Netherlands was so bad that private details about at least 180,000 company car drivers was easily accessed by an IT firm, the AD said on Monday. The leak was discovered by Sliedrecht-based company ESET which was looking for a new company car…