John Leonard reports: A school in Wiltshire was hit by a ransomware attack last weekend. Hardenhuish School, a mixed secondary academy in Chippenham, sent texts to parents and guardians of its 1,623 pupils notifying them of the attack. “As far as we can tell at this point, no personal data has been compromised, although our…
Category: Non-U.S.
Yellow Pages Canada confirms cyber attack as Black Basta leaks data
Update: On April 28, Yellow Pages issued a breach notification to employees affected by the breach. The notification reports that the types of information involved varied by individual and may have included name, email address, postal address, Social Insurance Number (where applicable), bank account information, emergency contact information, salary information, and date of birth. For…
Naivas Supermarket’s System Hacked, Data Stolen
Wycliffe Musalia reports that Kenya’s Naivas supermarket chain in Kenya has been the victim of a ransomware incident, but the chain assures customers that certain customer data such as payment card data was never at risk because it is not stored on their system. From the news report, it sounds like the company notified law…
Campbellford Memorial Hospital employee makes ‘unauthorized’ access to 3,500 patient records
Greg Davis reports: Campbellford Memorial Hospital says an employee has apologized for making “unauthorized” access to more than 3,500 patients records. Global News Peterborough has obtained a copy of one of the 3,500 letters sent to patients last week outlining a privacy breach at the hospital in the Municipality of Trent Hills. In the letter, hospital chief privacy…
Russian hackers exfiltrated data from from Capita over a week before outage
Kevin Beaumont writes: Capita have finally admitted a data breach, but still do not think they need to disclose key details of the incident to customers, regulators, impacted parties and investors. So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cementos Bío-Bío S.A attacked by BlackByte Cementos Bio-Bio S.A, a Chilean cement company, was added to BlackBye’s leaks site on April 9. DataBreaches found no notice of any incident on the main cbb.cl website, but the cbbexpress.cl customer portal had a notice about interruptions: “At this time we are having intermittencies with our services. If…