Saudi hackers who identified themselves as members of the online Anonymous network claimed on Monday to have leaked files containing personal information, including credit card numbers and expiration dates, belonging to more than 400,000 Israelis .
Xinhua Insight: Web security questioned after hackers leak personal…
BEIJING, Dec 23, 2011 — Xinhua Insight: Web security questioned after hackers leak personal data of over 6 million Internet users The personal information of more than 6 million Internet users on CSDN, or China Software Developer Network, the country’…
EU can’t discriminate between public and private personal data
Organisations can lawfully process personal data without consent
EU member states cannot generally prohibit organisations’ legitimate and necessary but unauthorised processing of personal data where the information is not stored in specified public sou…
Sony hires Homeland Security official to help halt hacking
With hackers taking down the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment earlier this year and making off with personal information belonging to millions of gamers, Sony on Tuesday announced that it has hired a former Department of Homeland Secur…
Hackers dump secret info for thousands of cops
String of embarrassing attacks continues
Hackers said they posted the names, addresses, and other personal information of 7,000 law enforcement officers that were stolen from a training academy website they compromised.…
