Is Canada getting more litigious on data breach lawsuits? Has anyone compiled any stats over the past five years? Vito Pilieci reports: A Toronto law firm has filed a statement of claim in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as a placeholder for a possible $75 million class-action lawsuit against the province. The filing, which…
UK: Worker stole customers’ personal details from Tesco database
STV provides an update to a previously noted breach. A Tesco worker stole customers’ personal details from the supermarket giant’s database. Thomas Wengierow admitted a charge under the Data Protection Act committed when he worked at the Tesco Customer Services call centre in Baird Avenue, Dundee. Read more on STV.
FIN6 Group Stole Tens of Millions of Credit Card Records from PoS Systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Yesterday, security researchers from FireEye and iSight Partner revealed a report detailing the previously unknown mode of operation of a criminal group named FIN6. FireEye says the group surfaced in 2015 and focused only on the theft of financial information, mainly credit card data from organizations in the retail and hospitality sectors….
MoD contractor hacked, 831 members of defence community exposed
And in other less-than-great Ministry of Defence news, Alexander J. Martin reports: Up to 831 members of Britain’s defence community with high-level security clearances had their personally identifying information stolen when the Ministry of Defence’s business networking organisation was hacked, The Register has learned. Although heavily redacted in places, correspondence between the MoD and Niteworks—requested under the Freedom…
UK: MoD accidentally releases secret Nato military manual
Rob Edwards reports: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accidentally released a secret NATO report with codewords, ciphers, co-ordinates, radio frequencies and a host of other “special instructions” for huge war games under way around Scotland. An MoD official mistakenly circulated a manual for planned air operations during major military exercises involving more than a…
AU: CompTIA apologizes after email privacy blunder
Tony Yoo reports: Industry group CompTIA has apologised for exposing the contact details of at least a thousand Australian members this month. CRN has sighted from multiple sources mass emails sent on the morning of 11 April to CompTIA’s Australia mailing list that expose the email addresses of all the recipients. The sender, new CompTIA…