Isaac Callan and Colin D’Mello report that Ontario’s health minister is ordering atHome, a provincial agency, to immediately notify approximately 200,000 patients whose data may have been breached in a vendor’s cyberattack in March. There appears to have been a breakdown in what should have happened, as the Health Minister reported that atHome had failed…
Category: Government Sector
Dublin ETB fined €125,000 for data protection breaches
Cianan Brennan reports: Dublin’s Education and Training Board (CDETB) has been fined €125,000 by the Data Protection Commission after the personal details of 13,000 grant applicants were made available to “unauthorised persons”. The commission concluded after a six-year investigation that the ETB had breached GDPR in multiple ways by both failing to ensure sufficient security…
Liberty Township in Ohio has recovered its network after a ransomware attack
With so many cyberattacks being disclosed every day, a lof ot them never get reported on in the media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but some of them do contain sensitive personal information or could expose people — or the entity itself — to increased risk of future attacks. One such incident involved Liberty Township…
Pro-Russian hackers disrupt Dutch government websites ahead of NATO summit
NL Times reports: On Monday morning, an online service used by Dutch municipalities and provinces to publish official documents was likely targeted by a digital attack, De Telegraaf reported. This has made web pages containing council and provincial council documents from regions such as Zuid-Holland and Overijssel, and cities including The Hague, Den Bosch, and Delft, difficult…
UK: Oxford City Council still investigating cyberattack from earlier this month
The home page of Oxford City Council displays an alert: “Disruption to ICT systems and services: We have been experiencing issues with some of our services following a cyber security incident. Most systems are now back online. Thank you for your patience as we work through any backlogs.” The full notice indicates that they experienced…
A state forensics lab was leaking its files. Getting it locked down involved a number of people.
Remember the old meme about how many <whatever your profession was> does it take to change a lightbulb? This week felt like, “How many people does it take to get very sensitive data locked down?” But there was nothing funny about it. Spoiler alert: the answer for this week was: 2 researchers, 1 journalist, 1…