Carla Bridglal reports: The Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate, Ansa McAl, is the victim of ransomware hackers holding some of the company’s IT systems hostage. Newsday understands that work at Tatil, the country’s biggest insurer, has been effectively stalled for about two weeks as the IT department works to find and expel the ransomware from the company’s…
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Montreal’s STM public transport system hit by ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Montreal’s Société de transport de Montréal (STM) public transport system was hit with a RansomExx ransomware attack that has impacted services and online systems. On October 19th, STM suffered an outage that affected its IT systems, website, and customer support. Read more on BleepingComputer. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Robo-advice firm suffers data breach
Cristian Angeloni reports: Germany-headquartered online advisory firm Scalable Capital has fallen victim to a data leak. According to local newspaper Merkur, the fintech company has suffered a “data protection incident” which saw confidential data being stolen. The clients affected were informed of the incident in a letter which claimed there had been an “unlawful access” of confidential client information in its document…
Probe ordered after phone data theft
Yiannis Souliotis reports: The telephone data of thousands of Greek citizens have reportedly been stolen in a massive hacking operation that took place from September 1 to 5 through the OTE telecommunications network. The Athens Court of First Instance has ordered a preliminary probe and asked the cybercrime unit of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) to draft a case file….
Courts fined $9,000 for second data breach in two years
No — it’s not the judiciary, but an electronics retailed in Singapore named Courts. Lester Wong reports: Electronics retailer Courts has been fined $9,000 for failing to secure customers’ personal details such as names, mobile numbers and addresses, the second time in two years that it has been found to have breached data protection laws….
Hackers attack Haldiram’s servers, demand Rs 7.5 lakh
Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Unidentified hackers attacked the servers of Noida-based Haldiram’s Snacks private limited with ransomware, stealing sensitive data and demanding a ransom of Rs 7.5 lakh to release the information. A case was registered at Noida Sector 58 police station on Wednesday. The incident occurred on the intervening night of July 12 and 13…