City of Port Phillip Statement from Chris Carroll, CEO City of Port Phillip The City of Port Phillip is committed to being transparent around incidents that may affect you and your data. As such, it is appropriate to let you know of an incident that occurred recently on our online customer portal, My Port Phillip….
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Public Notice: Disruptions and delays in services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Barbados
December 13: The Public is advised that the QEH is currently Investigating a cyber security incident on its Internet network. A number of areas appears to have been affected. There will be disruptions and delays in services, the duration of which is unknown at this time. The hospital’s IT Department in conjunction with MIST and…
TPG Telecom says up to 15,000 email accounts of business customers hacked
Reuters reports: Australia’s No. 2 telecom provider TPG Telecom Ltd (TPG.AX) said on Wednesday its cyber security adviser Mandiant notified the company of unauthorised access to an exchange service that hosts email accounts of up to 15,000 business customers. The hack was an attempt to access customers’ cryptocurrency and financial information, TPG said. Read more…
Cost of HSE cyberattack by Conti rises to €80m, letter shows
Jennifer Bray reports: The cost of the cyberattack on the Health Service Executive has risen to €80 million, according to new information. In a letter to Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín last Friday, HSE chief information officer Fran Thompson said that the costs came to more than €42 million in 2021 and to nearly €39 million…
Au: 130,000 Telstra customers exposed in data leak
Ben Cubby reports: Personal information of more than 130,000 Telstra customers has been exposed in the latest large-scale privacy breach to strike big Australian companies. Telstra said a “misalignment of databases” rather than hacking was responsible for the breach, which saw customer details wrongly made available on the online White Pages and via directory assistance….
Important Notice about FIPPA – Mandatory Breach Notification and Privacy Management Program Requirements Coming into Effect on February 1, 2023
Jeff Holowaychuk and Abigail Choi of Clark Wilson write: Starting from February 1, 2023, public bodies in BC will be required to comply with the mandatory privacy breach notification and privacy management program provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. These new provisions were part of a package of FIPPA amendments introduced…