Marie Mannes reports: Scandinavian airline SAS said it was hit by a cyber attack Tuesday evening and urged customers to refrain from using its app but later said it had fixed the problem. News reports said the hack paralysed the carrier’s website and leaked customer information from its app. Read more at Reuters.
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Hackers take down Bahrain airport website
Al Arabiya English with the Associated Press reports: Hackers said they had taken down the website of Bahrain’s international airport on Tuesday which was unavailable until at least 1:45 p.m. GST. It briefly came back online and was down again shortly after. A statement posted online by a group calling itself al-Toufan, or “The Flood”…
Community Health Systems estimates 1 million patients impacted by vendor’s GoAnywhere breach
Sometimes our first report of a data breach comes in an 8-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such is the case with a breach affecting Community Health Systems, Inc. in Tennessee. In its 8-k filing of February 13, CHS discloses that they were recently notified by Fortra, LLC, a third party vendor of…
And two more class action settlements….
Electromed In August 2021, DataBreaches noted reports that Electromed had been hacked, and the incident affected employees and customers. Electromed later reported the incident to HHS as impacting 47,200 patients. According to subsequent disclosures, this was a ransomware incident that Electromed had discovered in June. In September 2021, a potential class action lawsuit was filed…
Personal information exposed during breach in Edmonds School District’s network
Updated May 16: This incident was reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as affecting 833 people. KOMO News reports: The Edmonds School District said a “data event” is to blame for the technical problems that left the Edmonds schools without internet for nearly two weeks. On Friday, Edmonds said an investigation by third-party forensic specialists…
The darkness of not knowing disappears: How a China data leak is giving Uyghurs answers about missing family members
Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and the Visuals Team at CNN report: Imagine a world where your entire family has been detained or imprisoned, but you can’t find out why, or for how long. The police also have your DNA, voice samples and iris scans on file — along with biometric data on your children, your…