Canadian Press reports: A Manitoba-based insurance and financial brokerage that has clients across the Prairies has been hit by a ransomware attack that it hadn’t publicly disclosed. Andrew Agencies, based in Virden, appears on a list of targets published online this week by an international cybercriminal gang. Read more on CHVN.
Category: Business Sector
AU: Nine more charges for NSW data breach accused
Steven Trask reports: The Sydney IT contractor allegedly responsible for a massive data breach that cost an ASX-listed property evaluation company more than $8 million is now facing additional charges. Stephen Grant allegedly accessed and published more than 170,000 data sets including names, addresses, contact numbers, property valuations and driver’s licences between September 2017 and…
CMS Blue Button API Coding Error Potentially Exposes Health Data
Jessica Davis reports: December 18, 2019 – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has taken its Blue Button 2.0 API offline, as it investigates a coding error that potentially exposed the protected health information of about 10,000 beneficiaries. The BB2.0 platform is used by Medicare beneficiaries to authorize third-party applications to access their Medicare claims data. The system…
Ca: Shaw customers notified of data breach that happened back in June
Alanna Kelly reports: Shaw customers have been notified by mail about a security risk after a company laptop containing some people’s personal information was stolen months ago. In a letter to customers, Shaw Communications Inc. said the computer belonging to a Shaw employee was stolen on June 22. Read more on CTV. CBC News reported…
Unsecured backup devices continue to be a hot mess
After a few years of headlines blaring mega-numbers of records exposed by misconfigured RSYNC backups, we might hope that we would be seeing fewer errors by now. But it seems that RSYNC errors continue at a high rate, exposing massive amounts of data. This month, part of what I did was look at RSYNC errors…
Ticketmaster data breach victims make bid for Swift justice
Pavel Barter reports: Several legal cases have been filed in the Irish courts against Ticketmaster Ireland, following a 2018 data breach in which the personal and payment information of customers may have been stolen. On June 27, 2018, Ticketmaster sent an email to customers “who purchased, or attempted to purchase, tickets between February and June…