CBC reports: All five southwestern Ontario hospitals impacted by a cyberattack just over two weeks ago will rebuild their networks from scratch, the hospitals say in an update Wednesday. But the hospitals also say the investigation into precisely whose data was taken in the attack is expected to take months. “Through our investigation we know…
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Marina Bay Sands reveals data breach affecting 665,000 customers
AFP reports: A luxury resort operator in Singapore said today that the personal data of about 665,000 members of its shopping loyalty programme had been hacked. The breach of Marina Bay Sands was the latest in a string of major cybersecurity incidents reported in the city-state. […] Marina Bay Sands, which is owned by US…
Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospital
Kathleen Saylors and Jennifer La Grassa report: A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees are among the data taken in the ransomware attack on five southwestern Ontario hospitals, officials said in a lengthy update Monday. […] According to…
Update: Sensitive patient data leaked from TransForm ransomware incident; hospitals and centers affected
As predicted, Daixin has leaked the third part of the data they exfiltrated from TransForm and Canadian healthcare entities. DataBreaches reported the first leak when Daixin publicly claimed responsibility for the attack. The second leak followed two days later, and less than one day later, the third tranche dropped. As with the first two leaks,…
Update: Daixin leaks more data from Bluewater Health and other hospitals; databases yet to be leaked
As some will likely have already noticed, Daixin Team released the second part of the data leak from five hospitals in Ontario that have IT services provided by TransForm SSO. The first leak, containing many patient records, was previously reported by DataBreaches on November 1. Skimming the second tranche, DataBreaches noted a lot of internal…
Australian Clinical Labs to face court over 2022 data breach
David Hollingworth reports: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner believes Australian Clinical Labs did not adequately protect personal data, leading to an increased risk of “identity theft, extortion and financial crime”. When MedLabs pathology was hacked in February 2022, 223,000 Australians had their personal information exposed on the darknet, including credit card details and passport…