Lindsay Maizland reports: In order to hack foreign governments, military officials, and embassies, Russian hackers are now using Britney Spears in their operations by posting cryptic comments on her Instagram photos. Hackers at Turla, a group believed to be linked to Moscow, are using Instagram comments on Britney Spears’s photos to control their hacking operation,…
Over 5,000 Wind Tre customers hit by data breach
Telecompaper reports: Italy’s data protection authority, Garante Privacy, has ordered Wind Tre to write to customers to notify them of a data breach that occurred on 20 March. Tech website Key4Biz reports that some 5,118 customers may have been affected when the service provider responsible for the Self Care 3 area was attacked. A total…
HSBC reveals customer information leak
Raymond Hainey reports: HSBC Bermuda yesterday apologised after it e-mailed personal information on customers to other account holders. The e-mails contained names, e-mail addresses, countries of residence, the name of the customers’ relationship manager and HSBC customer identification numbers. Now the bank has launched an investigation to find out how the personal details — attached…
Data enrichment records for 200 million people up for sale on the Darknet
Steve Ragan reports: Full data enrichment profiles for more than 200 million people have been placed up for sale on the Darknet. The person offering the files claims the data is from Experian, and is looking to get $600 for everything. […] Salted Hash also reached out to Experian and one other firm, Acxiom,…
NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam
Carla Field reports: A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam. Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Korzelius, who owns Western…
20 Apple employees arrested in China for ‘selling’ personal data of customers
AFP reports: Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation run by Apple employees selling computer and phone users’ personal data. Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals’ privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement from local police in southern Zhejiang province on Wednesday. Of…