PTI reports: Realty firm Ansal Housing on Friday said that the company had faced multiple ransomware attacks on its IT system since February 26, which may have resulted in some data loss. The e-mail system had been significantly impacted resulting in non-receipt of any e-mail communication on the e-mail accounts, it said in a regulatory…
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Hogan Lovells Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2021
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Fr: City of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue victim of ransomware; won’t pay €500,000 demand
Daniel Morin reports (translation): This is the first time that the city of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse) has been the victim of such a computer attack , undoubtedly from abroad. It was 4:42 am exactly this Friday morning when hackers broke into the community’s servers remotely. All files have been encrypted and have been unusable since. “…
Signify Health notifies covered entities’ patients of possible access to their PHI
Signify Health, LLC is a business associate to entities covered under HIPAA. On October 12, 2020, they discovered that an employee had published his login credentials to a subscription-based job board. The employee, described as a low-level IT Support Specialist, was seeking a coding specialist to help him write a job-related script. He would later…
Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The group behind the Maze and Egregor ransomware operations are believed to have earned at least $75 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom payments following intrusions at companies all over the world. “We believe this figure to be much more significant, but we can only assess the publicly acknowledged ransom payments. Many victims never…
CZ: Olomouc paralyzed by a cyberattack. All municipal services remain unavailable.
From translations of available sources, it appears that the municipality of was paralyzed by a cyber attack on April 7. The municipality estimated that it would take about 14 days to fully restore services. They do not indicate what kind of ransomware was involved or what demands were made. Read more on Olomouc.cz. Last April,…