VOCM reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Harvey has stepped away from further involvement in his office’s investigation into the 2021 cyber attack on the health care system. Revelations about government seeking a court ruling on a potential conflict of interest with Harvey was a topic during question period in the House of Assembly yesterday. Read more…
Category: Non-U.S.
Latitude Financial data breach widens as fears over copies of driver’s licences grow
Trevor Long reports: Latitude Financial has today released a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) which confirms fears foreshadowed two days ago that the data breach is far worse than first anticipated. When the company first reported the breach, the number of affected customers was around 330,000, however today a statement says “regrettably our review has…
Only 15 entities have complied with India’s new 6-hour reporting rules
Simon Sharwood reports: India’s rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities. India’s Computer Emergency Response team (CERT-In) revealed that low, low, level of compliance in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by Indian tech news outlet MediaNama, which reported the news…
Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Niki Burnside reports: Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients’ records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a “serious breach of privacy”. In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within…
Au: Skin cancer survey hack may have ‘compromised’ personal details, Medicare numbers of participants
Danny Tran reports: Australia’s biggest skin cancer study has been hit by an unpublicised data breach, with the personal details of more than 1,000 people feared to have been accessed by hackers. The ABC can reveal cyber criminals last year broke into servers holding highly sensitive data collected by QIMR Berghofer, a medical research institute…
Four months after cyberattack, CHC Montlégia hospital system still offline
Seen in an article on The Brussels Times about risks to hospitals of cyberattacks: Last November the CHC Montlégia in Liège was also the victim of a cyberattack. Nearly four months later, its computer system is still offline. The only thing I could find on that was this February article on how the CHC was…