The Journal reports: A police investigation has been launched after a charity that works with vulnerable children suffered a data breach in a ransomware attack. Extern, a cross-border social justice charity with offices in Belfast and Co Kildare, has confirmed that it has been the victim of a large ransomware cyber attack. One source told The…
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Ca: Hacked hospitals sending 326K letters to patients in Windsor, elsewhere
Taylor Campbell reports: Hundreds of thousands of patients, including many in Windsor-Essex, whose personal information was posted to the dark web following a cyberattack last fall will soon receive letters from impacted hospitals. “One patient is clearly too many,” said Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj. He called criminal cyberattacks “disgusting acts, particularly when aimed…
Au: Diabetes WA reveals data breach
Richard Chirgwin reports: Diabetes WA has disclosed a data breach affecting people who engaged with its telehealth service. In a breach notice posted Tuesday, the organisation said a “third party” gained “access to the personal information of some … contacts.” The personal information possibly exposed in the breach includes name, address, date of birth, email, phone number,…
Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years
Jagmeet Singh reports: The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citizens’ personal information — including Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details — spilling online for anyone to…
Hackers stole Russian prisoner database to avenge death of Navalny
Sean Lyngaas and Darya Tarasova report: Within hours of opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s death in February in a Russian prison, a group of anti-Kremlin hackers went looking for revenge. Using their access to a computer network tied to Russia’s prison system, the hackers plastered a photo of Navalny on the hacked prison contractor’s website, according to interviews with the…
Israeli LGBTQ App Atraf Faces Data Leak, 700,000 Users Affected
Everything old is leaked again? First we learn that data of 70+ million AT&T customers that was originally leaked in 2021 has been leaked again. Now it’s the 2021 data leak from Atraf? Waqas of HackRead reports: Atraf, a popular Israeli LGBTQ dating app, has suffered a major data breach exposing personal information of over…