Penny Daflos reports: CTV News has learned the personal information of British Columbians has been leaked online, with an unknown number of people and agencies potentially still vulnerable, after a data breach at a mental health services provider. Homewood Health, headquartered in Ontario with services and contracts across Canada, acknowledges it was hacked earlier this…
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Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers
Alan Suderman reports: As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice on how to help keep his cellphone secure. Step One: Turn off phone. Step Two: Turn it back on. That’s it. Could…
Au: Bendigo cyber menace Dean Poot pleads guilty to attacking Victoria Police phone lines
Serena Seyfort and Paul Shapiro report: A Bendigo computer hacker disrupted police phone lines with menacing messages including a ridiculous claim cops are “international scammers”. Dean Poot, 30, pleaded guilty in the county Court on Wednesday to charges including unauthorised impairment of electronic communication. Poot, unemployed, used various aliases, stolen identity information, bogus credit cards…
Tokyo 2020 reportedly suffers ticket-related data breach
Michael Pavitt reports: Login identification and passwords of some Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games ticketholders has reportedly been leaked online. Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted an unnamed Government official, who said the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee had launched an investigation into the issue. Read more on InsideTheGames.
Nearly 58K targeted in Florida CONNECT website data breach, DEO says
WESH reports: Nearly 58,000 people were targeted in a data breach of Florida’s CONNECT website, the Florida Department of Economics has confirmed. The DEO said it learned of the data break on July 16 involving potentially fraudulent activity. Information that may have been accessed within the accounts included social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, bank…
German pharmacies stop issuing COVID vaccine passes after security breach
Update: I had originally linked to a report on Reuters. @Ju916 tweeted to me: First of all those were no threat actors but security researches demonstrating problems of the system in good faith. Second: those digital certificates are just comodity items. The original document (a yellow vaccination passport) can replace them in any situation. Because…