“Finland’s 3rd Largest Data Breach Exposes 130,000 Users’ Plaintext Passwords”
Finland’s citizens had their credentials compromised in a large data breach. Hackers attacked a new Business Center in Helsinki, a company that provides business consulting and planning and stole over 130,000 user’s credentials which were stored website database in plain-text without using any cryptographic hash.
Take-away: As part of their Incident Response plan, they reported the incidence to Helsinki Police authorities and publicly responded with their comments and steps taken towards investigating this data breach.
Ref. Link:
https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/helsingin-uusyrityskeskus-hack.html
Thanks for sharing the article. This is pretty scary and quite concerning too especially because of the problems in the maritime waters. This type of cross-country digital hacks have become quite common now a days where countries are willing to do anything to get data for their own benefit. It is high time that countries have strong defense mechanisms and legal actions for such acts. You right pointed out that the legal rules between China and the US failed here. Such laws need to be scrutinized further