Many of the headlines today discuss a story mentioned earlier today on this site — how Twitter got hacked and TechCrunch decided to publish some of the documents they were sent by the hacker. Steve Ragan of Tech Herald provides coverage of the ethical controversy raised by Tech Crunch’s decision and agrees with their stance,…
Category: Breaches
TechCrunch reveals confidential Twitter docs
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch discusses the dilemma they grappled with when they received a zip file from “Hacker Croll” containing hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees. There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to…
Woman threatens suit against Tigo over info leak
Millicom Ghana, operators of Tigo could soon be in the dock for allegedly releasing confidential information about a subscriber. A married woman, name withheld, accused the network operator of providing her ‘jealous’ husband with details of her call records. […] She was however surprised when the husband produced a detailed account of all calls she…
Security breaches at South Wales Police
Ten data security breaches in three years have taken place at South Wales Police, it has emerged. A member of staff was prosecuted for accessing and disclosing “intelligence information and previous convictions”. In another case, an employee resigned after being found guilty of charges relating to unauthorised access of the force’s computer system. A worker…