John Leyden reports: Malicious code injected into Tunisian versions of Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo! stole login credentials of users critical of the North African nation’s authoritarian government, according to security experts and news reports. The rogue JavaScript, which was individually customized to steal passwords for each site, worked when users tried to login without availing…
Category: Breaches
UK: Privacy watchdog urges stronger data protection in EU law review
Organisations which lose personal data should be forced to disclose the data security breach, the European Union’s privacy watchdog has said. Planned changes to EU privacy law do not go far enough, said the official. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has published an opinion urging the European Commission to extend the obligation…
Nesbitt awards woman $40K for privacy breach
Robert Todd reports: A British Columbia doctor has been forced to pay his ex-wife $40,000 for breach of privacy and defamation after accessing private information about her on an old home computer and publishing it online and in e-mails. The case, Nesbitt v. Neufeld, saw businesswoman Wendy Neufeld go after damages from her ex-husband, Patrick…
AU: No penalty in lake council leak
Stephen Ryan reports: Lake Macquarie City Council has escaped a penalty after one of its employees forwarded a woman’s personal details to a man who then harassed the woman with threatening text messages, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal was told. The woman wrote a letter of complaint to a council manager in July 2008 about a…