John Leyden reports: London-based payment processing firm GoCardless is warning customers that their personal information might have been exposed following the theft of 19 laptops from its offices last month. The “password protected” (not encrypted) laptops contained a file with customer personal data including email address, passport number, date of birth, and name. Leak of…
India: Over 700 govt websites hacked in 4 yrs
For those who like stats, some data from India, reported by Press Trust of India: More than 700 websites of various central and state government departments were hacked in the past four years, Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament): Of the total of 707, 199 of them were hacked last year, 164 in 2015, 155 in 2014 and 189 in…
Man Pleads Guilty in Bradley University Data Breach
Eugene Daniel reports: Tuesday, Gbadebo Adebiyi, 41, admitted in federal court to participating in a scheme dating back to 2015. Then, Bradley University reported a data breach of employees’ personal information which was used to file false 2014 tax returns. Adebiyi confessed to working with others to collect money from the tax returns. Read more on Central Illinois…
AU data breach notification bill receives bipartisan backing
Rohan Pearce reports: Australia is a step closer to having a mandatory data breach notification regime, after a bill to create such a scheme today received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives. The government introduced the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 in October. The bill has yet to be introduced in the Senate. Under the…
Prosecutors to seek indictment against former NSA contractor as early as this week
Ellen Nakashima reports: Federal prosecutors in Baltimore are expected to seek an indictment as early as this week against a former National Security Agency contractor who is accused of carrying out the biggest theft of classified information in U.S. history. The indictment against Harold T. Martin III is expected to contain charges of violating the Espionage…
Pro-Trump group hacked, website taken down in Cabinet fight
Tom LoBianco reports: A prolific Republican super PAC pushing President Donald Trump’s Cabinet took down its website temporarily Monday after hackers got in and retitled sections “Make America S****y Again” and scrawled “Black Lives Matter” across the video section. The 45 Committee — a PAC started by mega-donors Todd Ricketts and Sheldon Adelson — released…