The Jerusalem Post reports: The Iranian “AFTA” presidential strategic management center thwarted a widespread cyber attack on the country’s infrastructure in recent days, according to Iranian state TV IRIB. According to AFTA, the cyberattackers planned to exploit a security gap in one of the softwares most widely used by infrastructure organizations in Iran. The center…
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Edu-tech firm GeniusU fined $35,000 for data leak affecting 1.26m users
Rei Kurohei reports: GeniusU, a Singapore-based education technology company, has been fined $35,000 for a data breach that resulted in the theft of 1.26 million users’ personal data. The incident is one of the largest data breaches here in recent years, in terms of the number of users affected. Read more at The Straits Times. As…
Report: Pro-Iran hackers target Israel Airports Authority website; Israeli portal also hit
JNS reports: A pro-Iran hacking group named Altahrea Team targeted the website of the Israel Airports Authority, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. The group said its actions were “revenge” for the assassination by the United States on Jan. 3 of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandes, the commander of the pro-Iranian…
Sunwing president apologizes to stranded passengers, says outage result of cyberattack
Joshua Freeman reports that a Canadian airline’s flights were disrupted after an attack on the firm that provides its check-in system: “Obviously, this is a terrible situation and one that we didn’t expect,” Sunning CEO Mark Williams told CP24 in an interview. “Certainly apologize to everyone for the inconvenience this has caused. By Tuesday, it…
Ca: Arnprior Regional Health determines Arnprior and District Family Health Team data caught up in IT system breach
The following is a somewhat confusing, and seemingly self-contradicting press release. DataBreaches.net has sent an email inquiry to ADFHT seeking clarification of what they mean by saying that although the investigation is ongoing, they have concluded that the personal health information in its electronic medical record was not compromised. What does “compromised” mean to them?…
Journalist detained after claiming Turkey’s e-government system was hacked
Bianet reports: The Ministry of Interior filed a complaint against İbrahim Haskoloğlu, a journalist who shared ID cards allegedly belonging to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Chair Hakan Fidan on Twitter. After the complaint, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against the journalist for “illegally obtaining personal information.”…