Here’s another privacy complaint recently disclosed by the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office. The gist is that a customer complained to a telecom after she received a collection notice and discovered that someone had opened an account in her name using her name and date of birth. The telecom told the collections agency it was…
Category: Breaches
NZ government agency accidentally discloses informant’s identity to employer after workplace complaint
Oops. The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office has posted a summary of a case it investigated. The gist of the situation is that a woman made a complaint about her employer to a government agency and asked that they keep her name confidential. But when the government investigator went to the workplace, the investigator showed the employer…
Gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keys by Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters and the U.S. National Security Agency
Statement issued by Gemalto today: The investigation into the intrusion methods described in the document and the sophisticated attacks that Gemalto detected in 2010 and 2011 give us reasonable grounds to believe that an operation by NSA and GCHQ probably happened The attacks against Gemalto only breached its office networks and could not have resulted…
Has PC maker Lenovo committed the ultimate breach of customer security?
Michael Hiltzik writes: The Chinese company Lenovo has become known as the world’s largest PC maker. Now it’s also becoming famous as the computer company that may have committed the worst breach on record of its own customers’ privacy and security. Think that’s an exaggeration? Security expert Marc Rogers calls Lenovo’s actions “unbelievably ignorant and reckless” and “quite possibly the single…