Richard J. Brennan reports: Ontario has been hit with more than 200 privacy complaints about the mishandling of personal information by the provincial government or its agencies over the past 18 months, according to the information and privacy commissioner. Most of them can be chalked up to human error or computer glitches, but the common thread in…
Homeplus execs and employees illegally sold 24m customers’ info: prosecutors
South Korea has had some major breaches involving consumer information that I’ve reported on over the past years. Here’s a report from Yonhap News that mentions a breach I seem to have missed, though: In February, Homeplus Co., the South Korean unit of British retail giant Tesco PLC, was also indicted on charges of illegally selling…
Ca: Case of accused CBE teen hacker adjourned until August
Daryl Slade has an update on the case of the teenager accused of hacking the Calgary Board of Education: The lawyer for a 15-year-old boy charged last month with allegedly hacking into Calgary Board of Education servers over a five-month period appeared in youth court on Thursday. The teen, who was represented by lawyer Joel Chevrefils, allegedly…
UK: Customer Data Leaked in Possible Bitcoin Vendor Breach
Stan Higgins reports: A UK bitcoin vendor may have suffered a security breach, temporarily exposing customer data to the public. Visitors to the website for CoinCut, based in London, were able to access directories that included images of passports, credit and debit cards and personal IDs. The site was taken offline, and it is unclear how long the information…
One in four US hackers is an FBI informer
Ed Pilkington reports: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such…
Is there a “constitutional right to informational privacy”? as claimed by NTEU’s data breach lawsuit?
On July 8, in noting NTEU’s lawsuit over the OPM hack, I had questioned the suit’s claim that the government breach constituted a violation of their “constitutional right to informational privacy.” Jennifer E. Canfield of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP also picked up on that point and discusses the issue on Montgomery McCracken Data Privacy…