The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd a combined £14m following a cyber attack in April 2023 which saw hackers gain access to over 6m people’s data. Stroud News & Journal reports: Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to…
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They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Interior Health denied it for a decade.
Harvey Cashore, Eva Uguen-Csenge, and Mark Kelley report: Kelowna nurse Ashley Stone sits down at her kitchen table, opens a bulky blue folder containing a paper trail of 10 years of multiple frauds committed in her name by imposters and gets right to the point. “It’s just been a nightmare.” She says she’s had to…
Vn: Major hospitals hit by cyberattacks, patient data sold on hacker forums
Over the years, DataBreaches has noted hospitals in APAC countries having data leaked or being hit with ransomware attacks, but I have not seen a lot of reviews. An article by Thai Khang in VietnamNet names mentions some of the bigger hospital breaches in Vietnam since 2024, and then continues: According to Thuy, in the…
Qantas says ‘legal protections in place’ as ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters group threatens to release personal data
NOTE from DataBreaches.net: The injunction Qantas obtained is limited in terms of who it covers. It does NOT cover all journalists and media. It only covers those who are under the jurisdiction of the NSW Supreme Court. Most journalists and media are not covered by the injunction, such as DataBreaches, and many may decide to…
U.K.: Two arrested over cyber attack which stole thousands of nursery children’s data (1)
There’s been an arrest in the Kido school cyberattack incident. itvX reports: Two people have been arrested after hackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain in…
Just days before its data might be leaked, Qantas Airways obtained a permanent injunction
In July, DataBreaches reported that Qantas had obtained a preliminary injunction prohibiting the publication of any customer data stolen from it in a cyberattack by “persons unknown.” Those defendants were served with the injunction via email and online means. Although Qantas did not reveal who signed the ransom note, ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider didn’t hesitate…