Police Service of Northern Ireland reprimanded over unlawful data sharing

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been reprimanded for unlawfully sharing personal data on 174 people with a law enforcement agency in the United States. It follows an investigation by the UK data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office Read More …

Equifax fined £11 million by financial watchdog over 2017 cyber attack

The UK’s financial watchdog has fined Equifax £11 million for its role in one of the largest cyber attacks, which affected more than 13 million British consumers in 2017. The credit rating giant failed to keep its customers safe during Read More …

A Ransomware Group Is Claiming They’ve Breached Sony’s Systems And Stolen Data

Although the claims of a data breach are still unverified, Sony has publicly acknowledged the situation and issued a statement to IGN which simply reads, “We are currently investigating the situation, and we have no further comment at this time.” Read More …

Data breaches putting domestic abuse victims’ lives at risk, says UK watchdog

Councils, police forces and hospitals are putting women’s lives at risk by accidentally disclosing domestic abuse victims’ addresses to perpetrators, the UK’s information watchdog has said. John Edwards, the information commissioner, who has reprimanded seven organisations in just over a Read More …

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of internal sensitive data

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords, while publishing a storage bucket of open source training data on GitHub. In research shared with TechCrunch, cloud security startup Wiz said it discovered Read More …

HWL Ebsworth hack: 65 Australian government agencies affected by cyber-attack

Sixty-five Australian government departments and agencies were victims of the cyber-attack on legal firm HWL Ebsworth, the national cybersecurity coordinator has revealed. In a speech on Monday, Air Marshal Darren Goldie also revealed that some people and clients with personal information Read More …

Your car wants to know about your sex life

Car manufacturers are collecting troves of data on drivers and passengers — some even tracking drivers’ sexual activity — according to a new report. In a review of 25 car brands and 15 car companies published by Mozilla Foundation on Read More …

UK: Electoral Commission failed basic security test before hack

The Electoral Commission has confirmed it failed a basic cyber-security test around the same time hackers gained entry to the organisation. A whistleblower told the BBC that the Commission was given an automatic fail during a Cyber Essentials audit. Last Read More …