LaDepeche.fr reports (translation): After the hospitals, the firefighters! Without faith or law, wherever they work, from France or abroad, the new IT thugs have no mercy by now attacking vital emergency and health services in our region. country. The Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have had a bitter experience since the start of the week. “We were victims of a” ransomware…
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Cyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer. While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft…
Norway’s parliament hit by new hack attack
Reuters reports: Hackers have infiltrated the Norwegian Parliament’s computer systems and extracted data, officials said on Wednesday, just six months after a previous cyber attack was made public. The attack by unknown hackers was linked to a “vulnerability” in Microsoft’s Exchange software, the parliament said, adding that this was an “international problem”. Read more Reuters….
Told your organisation is leaking data? Here’s how not to respond
How many times have I blogged about “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” — the inappropriate response of some entities when notified that they have a leak or data breach? Here’s a current example, as noted by Graham Cluley. It all started routinely enough: Platform engineer and open source enthusiast Rob Dyke says that he’s found himself…
CIPL Submits Response to the EDPB Guidelines on Examples Regarding Data Breach Notification
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 2, 2021, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth submitted its response to the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) consultation on draft guidelines on examples regarding data breach notification (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines were adopted on January 14, 2021 for public consultation. The EDPB’s Guidelines are intended to provide concrete personal…
Walmart: Notice of Data Security Incident
On February 16, 2021, Walmart was informed by one of its suppliers that a data hosting service they used was compromised on January 20, 2021. An unauthorized party accessed the service and stole records from that service provider. Some of those records included information about a confined number of Walmart pharmacy patients. Walmart’s information systems…