Karl Bode reports: T-Mobile hasn’t been what you’d call competent when it comes to protecting its customers’ data. The company has been hacked numerous different times over the last few years, with hackers going so far as to ridicule the company’s lousy security practices. A responsible company might slow down on data collection until it was certain it had figured out…
Category: Breaches
Doctor who secretly filmed women with hidden cameras is struck off
Clare Dyer writes: A doctor who secretly filmed women with cameras hidden in bathrooms and accessed intimate images of hundreds more that were hacked from the iCloud has been struck off the UK medical register. Vinesh Godhania, 33, did not attend his medical practitioners tribunal hearing. He is serving a 32 month prison sentence, having…
Abuse survivor awarded £30,000 in damages for Ecclesiastical privacy breach
Hattie Williams reports: THE Ecclesiastical Insurance Office (EIO) has apologised to an abuse survivor, Gilo, for breaching his confidentiality, and has paid £30,000 in damages. Gilo was sexually assaulted by the late Garth Moore, a former diocesan chancellor (News, 4 December 2015). After his long struggle to tell senior church figures about his ordeal, in 2016 the…
Morocco files lawsuit against Spanish journalist who reported use of Pegasus spyware
Middle East Monitor reports: Morocco has filed a lawsuit against a Spanish journalist for his reporting of the Moroccan government and intelligence services using the advanced Israeli Pegasus spyware against him and others. According to the news agency, AFP, yesterday, Morocco submitted the lawsuit to a court in the Spanish capital, Madrid, against the journalist, Ignacio Cembrero,…