Katrina Clarke reports: Manitoba hospital workers have breached patients’ privacy more than 1,000 times in the last three years — but how many were disciplined and what consequences they faced is unclear. It’s an issue one ethicist calls “alarming,” saying the public deserves to know more about workers snooping into sensitive files. Data obtained by…
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Were hospital attacks in Osaka linked to a supply chain attack on lunch service by “Phobos?”
Asahi Shimbun reports (machine translation): The social medical corporation “Seichoukai” (Naka Ward, Sakai City), which operates general hospitals in Osaka Prefecture, announced on the 7th that it had been damaged by a cyber attack caused by ransomware. School lunch delivery services that deliver meals to affiliated hospitals are said to be affected. This school lunch…
Hackers release Australian health insurer’s customer data
While those of us who report on ransomware groups may not be sure whether to refer to the group responsible for a ransomware attack on Medibank as “REvil” or “BlogExx,” the more important story is that the hackers did start leaking data stolen from Medibank. The data, published on the dark web, included screencaps from…
Il: Cyber police hacked beyond court order Case 3000
Yonah Jeremy Bob reports: The state prosecution revealed to the defense in Case 3000, the Submarine Affair, on Tuesday that there were at least three instances where a probe by the cyber police unit seized cell phone data beyond what was approved by court order. Defense lawyers called the revelation outrageous and demanded that the state bring charges…
AU: Teenager pleads guilty to blackmailing Optus data breach victims
Freya Noble reports: A Sydney teenager has pleaded guilty to two charges after trying to blackmail people caught up in the Optus data breach. Dennis Su, 19, texted 93 of the telco’s customers, demanding they transfer $2000 to a CBA bank account “or face their personal information being used for financial crimes”. Su downloaded the personal details from a website that…
New Research Says a Third of Australians Victims of Data Breaches
Phil Mercer reports: New research released Tuesday has found that a third of Australian adults have been victims of data breaches in the last year. Analysis by the Australian National University shows that cyberattacks are one of the fastest growing types of crime in the country. The survey of almost 3,500 Australian adults during October…