Scott Anderson and Andrew Culbert report: The RCMP suspected someone senior in its ranks was offering to spill secrets, but still didn’t know the identity of the alleged leaker for several months after they first learned highly confidential information about investigations had been compromised. The revelation is contained in court documents unsealed late last week…
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It: Muncipality of Cagliari services interrupted by cyberattack
The Comune di Cagliari issued a notice on their web site on June 27 that a computer virus had reduced the functionality of its services, requiring extraordinary maintenance intervention. According to the notice, the impairment was also impacting services through call centers. In a press release quoted by EveryEye, they wrote: “The services at the…
Portugal: Cyberattack on Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo Impacting Notification of COVID-19 Test Results
The Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo de Ponta Delgada was hit with a cyberattack that was detected on June 24. As of today, the hospital is still working to recover from the attack while prioritizing notifying people who tested positive for COVID-19 in recent tests. Those who tested negative have experienced delays in notification. In…
UK: Barrow computer hacker tapped into school network and brought down Labour website
Melissa Major reports: A computer hacker who brought down the Labour general election candidate’s website and tapped into a school network has been given a suspended sentence. Bradley Kai Hayden Niblock, 22, was caught after the Cyber and Digital Crime Unit followed a pattern of online offending last year. Niblock, of Hawcoat Lane, Barrow, admitted…
Il: Details of over 200,000 students leaked in cyberattack
Tzvi Joffre reports: The details of about 280,000 students throughout Israel were leaked after a cyberattack targeted the AcadeME company, which services a number of colleges and universities throughout the country, last week. AcadeME helps hundreds of thousands of students find jobs at thousands of companies. A pro-Palestinian Malaysian hacker group known as “DragonForce” claimed…
UK: I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker
Gareth Corfield reports: A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled. The woman, named by Bristol Employment…