Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…
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SEC Settles Enforcement Action for Disclosure Controls Violations Stemming from Data Security Incident
Kate Hanniford writes: The SEC has settled an enforcement action against a large title insurer in connection with public statements and disclosures made by the company in May 2019 relating to a data security incident. The underlying data security incident was the subject of the first set of charges brought by the New York Division of Financial…
OK: Stillwater Medical Center officials investigating electronic security breach
KOCO5 has a brief item involving Stillwater Medical Center: Stillwater Medical Center officials say they recently discovered an electronic security breach that affected some of their systems. A social media post said they “immediately took steps to ensure the security of our environment, launched an investigation with the assistance of a computer forensic firm and notified law…
Impacts of Department of Health data breach remain unknown
CJ Baker reports: The Wyoming Department of Health knows it accidentally published the personal information of 164,000 residents on a public website earlier this year. But it remains a mystery as to whether any bad actors accessed the data before the department discovered the mistake and took the files offline. The roughly 54 files that…
Kr: HMM email systems hit by cyber virus attack
Marcus Hand reports that the South Korean shipping line has disclosed a breach: HMM said that an unidentified security breach was detected to its email servers in the early hours of 12 June leading to limited access to email systems. Over the following two days it said most of the confirmed damage to the system…
Santa Cruz ‘homeless hacker’ known as “Commander X” extradited from Mexico on decade-old case
Jessica A. York reports: Former Santa Cruz homeless activist “Commander X” has been deported from Mexico to face more than decade-old allegations of maliciously hacking into the county’s computer system. el file) Christopher Doyon, 56, appeared Monday before Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to face indictment…