Religious group People of Praise suffered a data breach last week, Catholic News Agency reported on Tuesday. The group has had increased attention given that on Saturday, President Donald Trump nominated one of its members, Amy Coney Barrett, to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “On September 23, 2020, our…
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Anglicare Sydney being held to ransom over sensitive data stolen from computer system
Ursala Malone reports: Anglicare Sydney has confirmed that it is being held to ransom over a large amount of potentially sensitive information that has been stolen from its computer system. The not-for-profit organisation holds records on adoption and foster care as well as counselling and mental health services. Read more on ABC (AU). The organization…
Ontario nurses’ regulatory body investigating ‘cyber security incident’
Kate Dubinski reports: The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) has been dealing with a “cyber security incident” that may have compromised the personal information of its almost 200,000 members, CBC News has learned. The name of the college and some of the information hackers say they have access to appears on a website associated with…
A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
Zack Whittaker reports: A privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s official campaign app allowed anyone to look up sensitive voter information on millions of Americans, a security researcher has found. The campaign app, Vote Joe, allows Biden supporters to encourage friends and family members to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by uploading their phone’s…
You’re fired: Dutch hackers broke into Trump’s Twitter account in 2016
DutchNews.nl reports: Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump’s Twitter account shortly before he became president in 2016 by guessing his password was ‘yourefired’, magazine Vrij Nederland reported this week. The hackers, named as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor by the magazine, used a leaked list of LinkedIn accounts from 2012 to target Trump, then a…
Russian state hackers suspected in targeting Biden campaign firm – sources
Joel Schectman, Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing, and Joseph Menn report: Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) recently alerted one of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms that it had been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to three people briefed on the matter. The hacking attempts targeted staff at Washington-based SKDKnickerbocker, a campaign strategy and…