Simon Sharwood reports: Japan’s minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Taro Kono, has apologized after a government app breached citizens’ privacy. The app is called the “Certificate Issuing Server” and, as explained by the municipal government of Kodaira City, allows residents to print documents such as certificates that prove they’ve paid taxes. Fujitsu Japan developed and…
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Half of North Korean missile program funded by cyberattacks and crypto theft, White House says
Sean Lyngaas reports: About half of North Korea’s missile program has been funded by cyberattacks and cryptocurrency theft, a White House official said Tuesday. A sweeping US federal government effort is ongoing to understand how “a country like [North Korea] is so darn creative in this space,” Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging…
Za: Department of justice negligence leads to huge personal data loss
Rorisang Kgosana reports: The department of justice & constitutional development contravened the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, resulting in the loss of more than 1,200 files. The Information Regulator issued an enforcement notice to the department this week for a September 2021 security breach on its IT systems. […] The security breach was caused…
Ontario school district hit by cyber attack discovers additional info stolen
Lynn Greiner reports: The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board has sent letters to students and former students informing them their personal information was compromised in a cyber attack that was first announced on Dec. 15, 2022. The attack initially took down the board’s website, as well as telephones, public address systems, and email for all…
WhizComms data breach: 50% of customers affected, notified on May 10
Aqil Hamzah reports: About 24,000 customers of broadband service provider WhizComms, or roughly half the company’s customer base, had their personal information stolen by an external party in a data breach incident detected on April 21. The affected people received e-mail on Wednesday informing them that a third party had accessed the firm’s Web server and downloaded…
North Korea behind SNUH hacking in 2021: police
Lee Han-Soo reports: The personal information leak at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) two years ago was found to be the work of North Korean hackers. The National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation has confirmed that a cyber attack orchestrated by North Korean hackers infiltrated the internal network of SNUH through seven domestic and…