Data Leakage News

The indictment filed by the seoul southern district prosecutors office accuses former Lotte executive S-Y Lee of violating the unfair competition prevention and trade secret protection act. The document states Lee resigned from Lotte when he thought he would be passed over for a promotion to company director. Prosecutors allege that he later met in Hong Kong with a top DFS executive, identified as Andrew Ford, and that he allegedly passed on confidential information about Lotte's plans for new businesses in 11 countries, including Guam.

In H1 2018, state secret incidents accounted for 5.3% of all registered data leaks. This is a digest of state secret leaks, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

In H1 2018, email services were used for almost one in every 10 registered confidential data leaks. Most incidents were of unintentional nature and thus could have been prevented by properly configured DLP systems. This is a digest of data leaks via email, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Because of their position, top managers enjoy privileged access to confidential information, including personal data of employees and customers, trade secrets, and other sensitive information. This is a digest of data leaks by executives, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Payment details and personal data of hotel customers are honey pies for cyber criminals who therefore break into Wi-Fi networks and booking systems. This is a digest of leaks from hotel chains, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

In H1 2018, USB sticks and other removable media accounted for 2.1% of leaks worldwide. Although its share in the leakage breakdown decreased, this channel should not be ignored. DLP systems reliably control the use of removable media in the company, while it also makes sense to encrypt sensitive information for its secure transfer. This is a digest of recent leaks through removable media, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Google is to shut down its Google+ social network after the data of 500,000 users was leaked and nobody was told, The Daily Mail reports.

Heathrow Airport has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for "serious" data protection failings. It comes after a staff member lost a USB stick last October containing "sensitive personal data", which was later found by a member of the public, The BBC reports.

A former Westmoreland County woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal wire fraud and identity theft laws, the website triblive.com writes.

Officials at the Department of Human Services said Monday that a small number of clients were affected this year by a computer error that labeled envelopes with incorrect addresses, the website newsok.com reports.