Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has received 12 complaints related to the membership status of users of food delivery platform Deliveroo, which will exit the city next month with its subscribers being given complimentary plans with rival Foodpanda. Consumer Council chief executive Gilly Wong Fung-han said on Saturday that the complaints involved about HK$5,000 in total,…
South Korean authorities have launched an investigation into an employee of a Hong Kong-based airline who is accused of profiting by selling illegally obtained private flight details of celebrities, including megastar K-pop boy band BTS. The cyber investigation unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is reportedly investigating the woman in her thirties, who allegedly…
The Hong Kong government’s investment promotion arm has said it is checking whether any personal information was compromised following a ransomware attack on its computer systems. InvestHK said on Sunday that preliminary findings revealed the attack, which occurred the day before, had affected areas including the body’s internal customer relationship management system, intranet and sections…
The Hong Kong government’s investment promotion arm has said it is checking whether any personal information was compromised following a ransomware attack on its computer systems. InvestHK said on Sunday that preliminary findings revealed the attack, which occurred the day before, had affected areas including the body’s internal customer relationship management system, intranet and sections…
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users’ data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot. The authority, called Garante, expressed dissatisfaction with DeepSeek’s response to its initial query about what personal data is collected, where it is stored and…
A man in eastern China was arrested for operating more than 400 mobile phones simultaneously to enhance his chances of winning gifts in live-streams. The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered managing the hundreds of devices in a small garage within a residential compound in Jiangsu province in August, as reported by China Newsweek on December…
The personal data of nearly 150,000 customers and employees of two hearing and speech centres in Hong Kong has been leaked after a ransomware attack, the privacy watchdog has said. On August 22, Widex Hong Kong Hearing and Speech Centre and its subsidiary Starry Hearing and Speech Centre revealed they fell victim to a ransomware…