Yonhap News reports: The Ministry of Science and ICT said Monday it has asked the police to investigate allegations that KT obstructed a government probe into the company’s unauthorized mobile payment breaches. In late August, unauthorized mobile payments worth a combined 240 million won ($168,000) were reported in Seoul and nearby areas after the personal...

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The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd a combined £14m following a cyber attack in April 2023 which saw hackers gain access to over 6m people’s data. Stroud News & Journal reports: Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to...

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As posted on Telegram by Pavel Durov, its founder: Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms: Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would...

Joe Fay reports: An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data. noyb said the ruling [PDF] by the Austrian Data Protection Authority also confirmed that Microsoft had tried to shift responsibility for access requests to...

Harvey Cashore, Eva Uguen-Csenge,  and Mark Kelley report: Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. “It’s just been a nightmare.” She says she’s had to...

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Over the years, DataBreaches has noted hospitals in APAC countries having data leaked or being hit with ransomware attacks, but I have not seen a lot of reviews. An article by Thai Khang in VietnamNet names mentions some of the bigger hospital breaches in Vietnam since 2024, and then continues: According to Thuy, in the...

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The Upper Tribunal (UT) has handed down its judgment in the UK Information Commissioner’s appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision on Clearview AI Inc (Clearview). In May 2022, the Commissioner fined US-based company Clearview £7.5m and issued an enforcement notice for scraping images of UK residents from the web and social media, and then uploading them into its global online...

NOTE from DataBreaches.net: The injunction Qantas obtained is limited in terms of who it covers. It does NOT cover all journalists and media. It only covers those who are under the jurisdiction of the NSW Supreme Court. Most journalists and media are not covered by the injunction, such as DataBreaches, and many may decide to...

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There’s been an arrest in the Kido school cyberattack incident. itvX reports: Two people have been arrested after hackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain in...

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Suzanne Smalley reports: Researchers have discovered new spyware embedded in fake messaging apps being used to target people in the United Arab Emirates. The cybersecurity firm ESET said Thursday its experts found two Android spyware campaigns, dubbed ProSpy and ToSpy, which pose as Signal and ToTok — a free messaging and calling app that originated...

In July, DataBreaches reported that Qantas had obtained a preliminary injunction prohibiting the publication of any customer data stolen from it in a cyberattack by “persons unknown.”  Those defendants were served with the injunction via email and online means. Although Qantas did not reveal who signed the ransom note, ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider didn’t hesitate...

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David Hollingworth reports: The Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (LPBWA) has said it has begun notifying individuals whose data was compromised following a cyber attack performed by the Dire Wolf ransomware gang in May. “Following a comprehensive investigation, the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (the board) has commenced notifying individuals whose data was...

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Joe Tidy reports: Hackers who attempted to extort a nursery chain by posting stolen images and data about children on the darknet have removed the posts and claim to have deleted the information. The criminals began posting profiles of the children to their website last Thursday, adding another 10 children days later and vowing to continue until Kido Schools...

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The Times of Israel reports: The Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in the central city of Beer Yaakov was targeted by a cyberattack over Yom Kippur, according to a joint announcement from the hospital, the Health Ministry and the National Cyber Directorate. Authorities were investigating the possibility of a leak as a result of the attack....

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James Pearson reports: Cybercriminals have stolen data on over 8,000 children attending nurseries in London operated by childcare provider Kido International, the hackers said on their dark web portal. The gang, which calls itself Radiant, evidenced its claim by publishing the names, photos, home addresses, and family contact information of 10 children it said attended...

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Aidan Radnedge reports: Harrods has warned some customers that their personal data could have been taken in an IT systems breach – in the latest cyber-attack to hit a major UK firm. The luxury department store based in London’s Knightsbridge said information, such as names and contact details, of its e-commerce customers was taken after...

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How much money enticed these teens to do something that may have just wrecked their future? Did they see it as just quick and easy money and no big deal?  Alexander Martin reports: Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers. The boys, both aged...

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Sarah Hooper reports: More than 500,000 people have signed a petition opposing Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to make every adult in Britain have a digital ID card. The prime minister said the so-called Brit-Cards ‘will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure’. But critics say they will do nothing to curb illegal...

Sania Kozatskyi reports: Cyber specialists of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine have gained full access to all computers and servers of the self-proclaimed authorities in temporarily occupied Crimea. Sources within the agency reported this to Militarnyi. As part of the operation, they obtained over 100 terabytes of intelligence data, including official correspondence of the so-called “head of...

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ChosunBiz reports: Lotte Card, whose internal data was leaked in a recent hacking incident, said on the 24th that from the 1st of this month through the previous day, among the 2.97 million customers whose information was leaked, about 650,000 applied for card reissuance, about 820,000 changed their card PINs, about 110,000 suspended their cards,...

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