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1.1m Australians’ credit card data at risk by Chinese-owned energy company – 2 March 2020
Alinta Energy was sold to a Chinese tycoon in 2017 and an internal privacy compliance audit by Ernst Young in June 2019, leaked by a whistleblower, found Alinta’s privacy compliance had significant risks in key areas and has put 1.1 million Australian customers at risk.
Elderly US woman Patricia Dudding’s online scamming ‘nets $2.45m’ – 2 March 2020
Ms Dudding, of Huntington, West Virginia, is accused of becoming involved in the cyber-fraud scheme in about May 2018. She became an alleged accomplice, a so-called “money mule” laundering money from Australian victims and others, sending $US1.6m ($2.45m) to Nigeria and spending more than $US100,000 herself.
Clive Palmer to face more criminal charges – 1 March 2020
Businessman and former federal MP Clive Palmer says he will fight fraud charges brought against him by ASIC. Palmer has been charged with two counts of contravening section 408C(1d) of the Criminal Code of Queensland, by dishonestly gaining a benefit or advantage, pecuniary or otherwise, for another person.
NIST tests forensic methods for getting data from damaged mobile phones – 29 January 2020
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have tested how well forensic methods, work, to retrieve data from damaged phones owned by criminals.
https://www.miragenews.com/nist-tests-forensic-methods-for-getting-data-from-damaged-mobile-phones/
