Rory Callinan reports: Queensland’s largest regional water supplier, Sunwater, says it was targeted by hackers in a cyber security breach that went undetected for nine months. It has been revealed that hackers left suspicious files on a webserver to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform last year. Sunwater admitted the cyber breach after the tabling…
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N.L. patient, employee data stolen in health-care cyberattack
Alex Kennedy reports: Hackers stole personal information connected to both patients and employees in the Eastern Health and Labrador-Grenfell Health regions of Newfoundland and Labrador’s health-care system as part of a recent cyberattack, according to officials. The information was accessed through the province’s Meditech data repository, which includes a patient information database as well as…
Activists leak 600 hours of mostly Dallas police helicopter footage after city’s 22 terabyte loss of criminal case data
David Lee reports: Data transparency activists released a massive 600-hour leak of mostly Dallas Police Department helicopter footage, raising more questions about the city’s data security protocols three months after DPD admitted to a 22-terabyte deletion of case data that resulted in the release of criminal defendants awaiting trial. Distributed Denial of Secrets — a…
Conservatives call for investigation into government data breaches that may have put Afghans in danger
CBC reports: The Conservatives have written to Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien to complain about a pattern of data breaches at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), CBC News has learned. The complaint is in response to a string of misdirected emails last month that may have exposed hundreds of vulnerable Afghans to danger. Read more on Yahoo!…
Cyber Attack Knocks Ohio County Library Computers Offline
Mike Sigov reports: A cybersecurity incident has knocked out the Toledo Lucas County Public Library website and computer systems for the second day in a row, and officials are unsure when service might be restored. Stephanie Elton, the library’s assistant manager of communications, innovation and strategy, said the service outage happened because of a “targeted…
Martin County tax collector still silent amid cyberattack, message to them posted on dark web
CBS in Florida reported this on October 29: CBS12 News is still waiting to hear back from the Martin County Tax Collector about a cyberattack. CBS12 News has been reaching out for more than a week, but the only time it’s been addressed is on a Facebook post that said in part “steps are being taken to…