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A Hong Kong school has seen its computer system invaded by hackers, causing the personal data of over 600 people to be leaked. It is the latest known cyberattack targeting local groups and institutions in recent months. Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKICC), a liberal arts secondary school, said in a statement last Saturday that the school discovered a ransomware attack on its servers last Monday. Data amounting to eight terabytes was encrypted and stolen. The data involved the personal information of current students and their families, graduate...
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Hong Kong’s environmental authorities have conditionally approved an ecological report into a planned technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, giving the project the go ahead despite green groups’ concerns. Director of Environmental Protection Samuel Chui on Friday defended the environmental impact assessment report for the San Tin Technopole project as “scientific, professional and comprehensive,” adding that the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had proposed additional ecological mitigation measures on top of the eight suggested in the report. One of the main measur...
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Personal details of more than 8,000 students at a private Hong Kong college have been stolen and reportedly posted on the dark web, the latest in a spate of cyberattacks in the city which have sparked calls for tighter safeguards. The Hong Kong College of Technology – which offers a government-subsidised Higher Diploma in Cybersecurity – said on Thursday it suffered a ransomware attack by hackers in late February, in which many internal documents were stolen and encrypted. “This attack was not a typical one but rather a highly targeted and unusual cyber attack. HKCT strongly condemns any form ...
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Video-sharing app TikTok, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, have filed a legal challenge in the US against a legislative move to force its sale, lest it face a country-wide ban. The petition said the demand violated constitutional guarantees to free speech detailed in the First Amendment, after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving the tech firm nine months to find a non-Chinese buyer. TikTok is estimated to have around a billion users worldwide and roughly 170 million users in the US. The firms argued on Sunday that “Congress has made a law curtailing massive amounts of protected s...
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Hong Kong’s fire department has discovered a computer system breach that exposed the personal data of over 5,000 department personnel and hundreds of residents, marking the third data security incident involving the government in less than a week. The Fire Services Department (FSD) said in a statement on Monday evening that there was no evidence that the breach, caused by an unauthorised alteration of access rights during a data migration procedure by an outsourced contractor, led to the data being “released.” The data included the surnames and telephone numbers of approximately 480 people who...
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The government has urged employers of outdoor workers to develop their own rules to prevent heatstroke after rolling out revisions to an official warning system that was slammed as ineffective and disruptive when introduced last year. The adjustments were made after stakeholders aired views to the Labour Department, Deputy Commissioner for Occupational Safety and Health Vincent Fung told RTHK on Friday. The pilot scheme was not originally due for review for two years. The Labour Department launched the revisions on Thursday to minimise situations in which a heat warning is cancelled and then r...
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A government advisory body has conditionally approved a report on the environmental impact of building a technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, despite criticism from green groups. The Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE), a government-appointed body, on Monday unanimously endorsed the government’s environmental impact assessment for the San Tin Technopole. See also: What is Hong Kong’s San Tin Technopole and why is the planned tech hub controversial? The report was submitted by the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD). The planned tech hub will cover 62...
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Hong Kong’s government-backed broadcaster RTHK has begun to use Artificial Intelligence-generated (AI) voices in place of some human presenters, saying that generative AI was increasingly pervasive and helped “relieve the staff shortage pressures.” Journalist Aaron Busch spotted the AI voice being used to host sports news on RTHK English-language channel Radio 3 this week. Meanwhile, AI virtual idol “Aida” has been hosting weather reports since last June. Aida also encouraged Hongkongers to vote in the “patriots-only” local elections last November. “The use of Generative AI to assist productio...
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Hong Kong technology park Cyperport’s infrequent security audits and unnecessary retention of personal data were among the deficiencies that allowed its servers to be attacked by malicious ransomware last August, the city’s privacy watchdog has found. Around 40 per cent of the 13,632 individuals whose personal information was leaked from the government-owned tech hub were unsuccessful job applicants and ex-employees, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) said in a report released on Tuesday. According to the PCPD’s findings, a hacker accessed Cyberport’s network on Au...
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Hongkongers have become wearily familiar with incoming “spam” phone calls, which once started with the giveaway number “3” but are now harder to spot. Telemarketers are merely annoying, but “scam” calls from their criminal counterparts can lead to severe financial losses. HKFP looks at the rise in both telemarketing and scam calls in the city despite efforts by police and the telecommunications regulator to combat them. According to a report by call-blocker app HKJunkCall last October, more than 16,000 person-to-person telemarketing calls, or spam calls, were reported in the first nine months ...
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