Londiwe Buthelezi reports: Standard Bank says it took several days to disclose the latest data breach on its LookSee platform because its immediate focus was to get to the bottom of the issue first and understand how serious it was. The banking group informed the public on 9 December that homeowners’ data was compromised by…
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Darknet operators of “cyber bunker” convicted and sentenced in Germany
An important case out of Germany in the news there, as machine translated by Google, below. From DerStandard: A good two years after the “cyber bunker” on the Moselle was blown up, there were 227 follow-up proceedings against customers of the illegal data center for criminal transactions in the Darknet. Most of them had to be…
Świętokrzyskie: Personal data leaked from the commune office in Nowiny
Eric Wilson reports that the municipality was hit with a ransomware attack: The announcement was published on the office’s website and in social media. According to the information published by the office, one of the employees was accidental opened an infected link that launched the malware and encrypted the server. The administrator found out about the…
Canadian federal privacy commissioner says BMO security breach in 2017 affected 113,000 client accounts
James Bradshaw reports: A 2017 data breach that exposed personal information belonging to more than 113,000 Bank of Montreal customers exploited “significant weaknesses” in the bank’s safeguards that have since been strengthened, according to a report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. BMO previously disclosed the breach in May, 2018, after receiving a ransom demand…
Arrest in Romania of a ransomware affiliate scavenging for sensitive data
The following is a press release: Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has supported the Romanian National Police (Poliția Română) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in arresting a ransomware affiliate targeting high-profile organisations and companies for their sensitive data. The suspect – a 41-year-old Romanian national – was arrested today at his home in Craiova, Romania, in the early hours…
Woman finds medical records stacked next to recycling bin in Sharpstown neighborhood
Re’Chelle Turner reports: A woman said she discovered medical records, which included private information, which was left in the middle of a southwest Houston neighborhood. “I was shocked with all the HIPPA [sic] rules now. I was very surprised,” she said. The woman, who did not want to be identified, said she saw something unusual…