Jessica Kim Cohen reports: The latest data from the Human Services Department’s Office for Civil Rights show the largest number of healthcare data breaches in a year since regulators started tallying them in 2010. This year’s total beat last year’s by a single incident. These breaches didn’t affect as many patients as the worst year…
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Belgian defense ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability
Gareth Corfield reports: The Belgian Ministry of Defence has suffered a cyber attack after miscreants exploited one of the vulnerabilities in Log4j. The attack marks the first occasion that a NATO country’s defence ministry has fallen victim to the flaws. The attack took place last week, as reported by Flemish-language TV news station VRT, which said “some…
Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims, insists Home Office
Gareth Corfield reports: The Clop ransomware gang pwned a managed service provider with access to the UK’s Police National Computer, dumping data on its dark web leaks site – but officials deny that police data was compromised. Dacoll, a Scotland-based MSP, was attacked in October by the notorious criminal crew. Reports surfaced in the Mail on…
Au: Charges over Victoria Police data breach
AAP reports: A Victorian police officer has been charged after he allegedly accessed and passed on police information. The 45-year-old male officer, from the Eastern Region, has been charged with accessing police information, disclosing police information, and intentionally communicating protected information. Read more at The West Australian.
‘Sensitive information’ was stolen from a laptop. Nuclear power installation in Tarragona
BollyInside reports: Theft of a backpack left in a car by a Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) inspector has been reported to the Mossos d’Esquadra. The backpack appeared to contain a laptop with classified information on the Vandellos II plant in the province of Tarragona. As reported by La Vanguardia and confirmed by Catalan police sources…
Hackers attack Israeli hiking websites, leak personal information
Tzvi Joffre reports: A hacker group called Sharp Boys announced that it had hacked two Israeli hiking websites on Saturday, leaking the information of 100,000 users and offering the information of around three million people for sale. The leaked data includes emails, addresses, photos and phone numbers. The two affected sites were Tiyuli and Lametayel….