From Parliament: A debate has been scheduled for 4.30pm on Tuesday 28 March on medical technology regulations and the NHS. The debate will be opened by Dame Caroline Dinenage MP. The Library will produce briefing ahead of this debate, and this page will be updated when it is published.
Category: Non-U.S.
Cyberattack disrupts Spanish medicine distribution
Conor Faulkner reports: A cyberattack on a leading pharmaceutical supply company has disrupted the distribution of medicines to Spanish pharmacies. The attack, which started last Friday and is still ongoing, has affected wholesale supplier Alliance Healthcare’s servers and delayed and even prevented the normal delivery of some medicines to pharmacies in Spain, according to Spanish daily El…
McDonald’s Korea fined $532k for breach of customers’ personal data
Yonhap News reports: McDonald’s Korea was given a fine of 696 million won (US$532,110) on Wednesday after the personal data of 4.87 million customers was leaked to hackers due to the firm’s lax data management. The Personal Information Protection Commission handed out the fine to the Korean branch of the American fast food chain, along…
Skylink hit by hacker attack
Chris Dziadul reports: M7 Group’s Czech and Slovak operator Skylink has fallen the victim of a hacker attack. In a note published on the Skylink CZ’s Facebook page, the operator said: “We apologise, currently we have reported a system outage (web, customer zone) due to a hacker attack. We are working intensively on the repair….
Privacy Commissioner Steps Away From Cyber Attack Investigation
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…
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…