When the data are old and the company is defunct, it’s a headache making notification and getting a leaky Amazon AWS S3 bucket secured. eHackingNews reports: WizCase’s cybersecurity group discovered a prominent breach impacting Reindeer, an American marketing company that previously worked with Tiffany & Co., Patròn Tequila, and other companies. Led by Ata Hakçil,…
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Ie: Patient medical records found in a pub and carpark
Irish Examiner reports: Patients’ medical records from Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) were found in a pub and in a carpark by members of the public in two separate incidents that occurred in the same five-week period, it has emerged. Read more on Irish Examiner. The story contains reports on other HSE breaches.
NZ: Work and Income privacy breach due to email mistake
Daniel Smith reports: Private email addresses of 103 beneficiaries have been made public due to a mistake by a Work and Income caseworker. They were carbon copied (CC) into an email promoting free fruit and nuts from the Christchurch City Council, rather than blind carbon copied (BCC), which would have concealed them from each other. Read more…
Sg: OrangeTee real estate group suffers data security breach
CNA reports: OT Group, the holding company of OrangeTee & Tie and OrangeTee Advisory, has suffered a data security breach, the Singapore real estate group said on Friday (Aug 6). The company said it received an email from a third party claiming to have accessed its IT network. The incident was reported to the relevant…
Hacker steals $600 million from Poly Network in biggest ever cryptocurrency hack
Some days, reading Twitter is like watching a train wreck unfold before you. Yesterday was like that. Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unidentified hacker has stolen more than $600 million worth of cryptocurrency from Poly Network, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform based in China. From the outset, it was clear that this was not going to be…
UK: Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm’s ‘confidential’ meeting minutes from Google Search
Gareth Corfield reports: A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems. The raid by four Metropolitan Police constables took place after Southwark campaigner Robert Hutchinson was reportedly accused of illegally…