The Business Times reports: A landmark United Nations cybercrime treaty, aimed at tackling offences that cost the global economy trillions of dollars annually, is set to be signed in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi by around 60 countries over the weekend. The convention, which will take effect after it is ratified by 40 nations, is expected to…
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Two U.K. teenagers appear in court over Transport of London cyber attack
Neil Henderson reports: Two teenagers have appeared in court facing computer hacking charges in connection with last year’s cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL). Thalha Jubair, 19, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall in the West Midlands, were charged with conspiring to commit unauthorised acts under the Computer Misuse Act. They appeared…
ModMed revealed they were victims of a cyberattack in July. Then some data showed up for sale.
Modernizing Medicine (“ModMed”) is a healthcare technology firm that provides Electronic Health Records (EHR) and practice management software to many HIPAA-covered entities. ModMed recently announced that on July 29, it discovered unauthorized activity in some of its computer servers. The servers in question contained data from some of ModMed’s podiatry clients, and the data was…
Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information
Tara Deschamps reports: Toys “R” Us Canada has notified customers of a data breach it says may have compromised their personal information. In an email sent to shoppers Thursday morning, the toy store said it learned on July 30 that someone had posted information on the “unindexed Internet” they claimed to have stolen from the…
Gatineau gymnastics centre warns members of possible data breach
CBC reports: Thousands of members of a gymnastics centre in Gatineau, Que., may have had their personal and financial data stolen after a possible computer breach. Some 21,000 members of Unigym Gatineau learned about the Oct. 6 breach in an email from the club on Wednesday. The compromised data includes names, contact information, social insurance…
Data breach in 42 Latvian municipalities: DVI imposes 300,000 euro fine on ZZ Dats
LETA reports: The Data State Inspectorate (DVI) has imposed a 300,000 euro fine on SIA “ZZ Dats” in connection with last year’s municipal data breach; the company has appealed the decision in court, the LETA news agency reports. According to the Inspectorate, the data were stored in an information system maintained by ZZ Dats. Upon…