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Retail Asia08/03/2022

There has been a new security breach in the tech industry. This time, the victim was reportedly Samsung Electronics. The hackers taking responsibility for the data breach are from the Lapsus$ hacking group. Lapsus$ has leaked around 190GB of what it claims to be confidential data from Samsung, which includes source code and biometric unlocking algorithms. […]

Retail Asia13/09/2021

Ad Standards has found that McDonald’s Australia breached rules for distinguishable advertising, as set out in the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) Code of Ethics, Section 2.7. The breach occurred in an Instagram post by @southaussiewithcosi, which featured a man, woman and two children in matching McDonald’s pyjamas and holding McDelivery bags. Andrew ‘Cosi’ […]

Retail Asia06/08/2021

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission reprimanded and fined UBS over regulatory breaches covering various areas including transparency client suitability. The SFC fined UBS AG and UBS Securities Asia Limited HK$9.8 million ($1.26 million) and $1.75 million, respectively, over various regulatory breaches, according to a statement. The issues covered areas ranging from lacking disclosures to client suitability issues. The […]

Retail Asia17/06/2019

Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud providers, according to a new Kaspersky Lab report. Companies expect cloud providers to be responsible for the safety of data stored on their cloud platforms, the report found. However, around 90% of corporate […]

Retail Asia05/06/2019

Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing announced hackers may have gained access to personal information of 461,091 accounts registered on the company’s Japanese shopping websites. The retailer said in a statement Monday the hackers may have accessed customers’ personal information, purchase history and partial credit card numbers of some of the users of its Uniqlo Japan and […]

Retail Asia19/04/2018

Thai telecoms regulator NBTC has instructed mobile operator True Move H to assess the impact of its recent personal data leak and offer compensation to any affected customers. The regulator also plans to conduct a formal investigation into the incident and consider imposing punishments, and issue a letter demanding that mobile operators take appropriate steps to prevent […]

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Samsung allegedly fell victim to a data breach

McDonald’s hit with breach of advertising rules over Instagram mix-up

SFC Fines UBS Over Regulatory Breaches

Humans cause 90% of cloud data breaches

Uniqlo shoppers Details Leaked Online

True Move told to consider compensation over data leak