Multinational transport company suffers hacker attack
By: Leonardo Neri A young hacker ended up invading Uber’s private system in September, sending a note to the Messaging Service (Corporate Slack) vehemently announcing the invasion. Initially, the Startup’s employees imagined the message as a test by managers in order to understand the form of action, as it was also understood as a joke between […]
Brazilians use digital legal security to prevent spam on social networks
By: Leonardo Neri Many users of social networks, such as WhatsApp, are unaware of how their personal data is accessed by companies, mainly in the construction and telephony sectors, which offer them real estate developments and annual usage plans, respectively. The indelicate situations in which citizens are exposed have given rise to what is popularly known as […]
Hacker Invades Judicial System to Change the Result of His Sentence
By: Leonardo Neri On the 11th, the Federal Court website experienced a rare turbulence, the invasion of its digital system by a hacker, whose purpose was to change the criminal sentence that had convicted him. It is important to emphasize that the virtual action carried out by the intruder caused even more damage to himself, since […]
Ministry of Justice and Public Security publishes ordinance on rules and processing of personal data
By: Leonardo Neri According to the National Institute for Data Protection on LinkedIn, the ordinance regarding the general policy and regulation of data protection was released, the main purpose of which is to disclose the formal rules for processing personal data, in accordance with current legislation. Ordinance MJSP No. 561 was made available on […]
Judgments of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo containing grounds in the LGPD
By: Leonardo Neri We have collected some court decisions from the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo containing grounds in the LGPD. The following stand out: The 34th Private Law Chamber exempted Eletropaulo from compensating a customer for a data leak. The judge emphasized that the company was not at fault for the episode, which occurred due to the action of […]
Hackers invade the National Health System and the repercussion exposes the fragility of a society without proper information security
By: Leonardo Neri The Ministry of Health and ConecteSUS, an app that provides proof of vaccination against COVID-19, were cyber-invaded on December 10, 2021, affecting systems that report cases of the disease. The website’s downtime caused a crisis in much of the country. In Salvador, for example, passengers were unable to board […]
Guidance on the application of the LGPD by data processing agents in the electoral context
By: Leonardo Neri Formatted in 2021, the Guidance Guide on electoral issues was made available at the beginning of 2022 not only by coincidence, since it is an election year in the country and with the increase in access to information through virtual means, it is necessary for citizens to have transparency and […]
Fraud in payment slips does not generate liability for the bank due to lack of evidence that data was improperly used
By: Leonardo Neri At the end of 2021, a court ruling on fraudulent bills brought to light the issue of banks’ liability in these cases, which resulted in a series of criticisms on social media from people who did not agree with the decision that exempted a banking institution from liability. The judge of the 1st […]
After hacking the SUS system, hackers gain access to Federal Government passwords
By Leonardo Neri The Federal Government is facing difficulties in the digital sphere. After a serious cybersecurity failure, the government is having difficulty knowing how to respond to successful hacker attacks. After accessing the ConecteSUS and Ministry of Health systems, 20 public agencies, including other ministries, were compromised. It should be noted that until […]
Personal data from PagSeguro in conjunction with WireCard were exposed on hacker forums and raises the issue of the legal limits of innovation
Electronic payment systems have been on the rise in recent years, pushing physical currencies into the background and, as a result, increasing the digital linkage of payments. As a result, the number of scams against banking companies has been increasing. On November 4th, it was PagSeguro’s turn to suffer the so-called registration hijackings, whose […]
