Update: leaked login credentials claimed to be associated with Dropbox accounts are not Dropbox accounts, according to Dropbox. Rose Troup Buchanan reports: Hundreds of passwords to Dropbox accounts have been leaked in the latest security breach, with hackers threatening to release millions more account details in exchange for Bitcoin. Hackers, who were apparently able to access logins and…
South Korea at a crossroads with ID card, data theft losses
AP reports: After an avalanche of data breaches, South Korea’s national identity card system has been raided so thoroughly by thieves that the government says it might have to issue new ID numbers to every citizen over 17 at a possible cost of billions of dollars. The admission is an embarrassment for a society that…
Japan’s gov’t mulls beefing up regulations on exchange of personal data among database firms
Mainichi reports: The government is considering tightening regulations on the exchange of personal data among database firms, after a systems engineer allegedly stole a massive amount of customer information from correspondence education provider Benesse Holdings Inc. and sold it to three database companies. According to investigative sources, over 200 million customer data entries were leaked…
MI: Medical files found dumped in Oak Park
Lauren Podell reports: Medical files have been found dumped outside an Oak Park medical center where the doctor was convicted of Medicare fraud before passing away. Julius Williams told Local 4 he went to pick up a prescription over the weekend near his former doctor’s office on Coolidge Highway when he noticed boxes piled up…
Businesses should not need to publicize personal data breaches if data is encrypted, say EU ministers
Out-Law.com reports: Businesses should not need to notify consumers that their personal data has been lost or stolen if the data has been encrypted, EU ministers have said. Ministers in the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the EU’s Council of Ministers backed the plans as part of a wider partial agreement reached last week on…
Benesse leak accused admits copying customer data, but says he did not know it was wrong
Kyodo News reports: A systems engineer on Tuesday admitted copying information about millions of customers from the computer servers of education service provider Benesse Corp., but he told a court he did not know the data was confidential. Masaomi Matsuzaki, 39, was appearing at the Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court, in the first…