The Jewish News Syndicate reports: Iran has blamed foreign countries, including Israel, for a cyber attack on its semi-official Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, AFP reported on Saturday. Fars said in a statement posted to Telegram that its website was disrupted on Friday by a “complex hacking and cyberattack operation, and…
Category: Non-U.S.
No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking, Friday Global Edition
For today’s episode of “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking,” DataBreaches brings you three leaks involving patient/medical information: one from the U.S., one from India, and one from Australia. Tridas Center Jeremiah Fowler and the Website Planet research team discovered an unsecured database containing more than 16,000 records with personally identifiable information about pediatric…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
MX: LV threat actors claim to have hacked UnitedAuto On November 19, LV BLog added UnitedAuto, a Mexican automotive company, to its leak site, claiming to have more than 2TB of stolen personal information. The threat actors criticized their victim, stating “United Auto does not have any basic protection for their system. The company has…
Iranians Hacked Security Footage of Jerusalem Bombing
Pesach Benson reports: The Israeli Military Censor on Thursday cleared for publication that Iranian hackers managed to obtain security footage of Wednesday’s Jerusalem terror attack and post it online. Further details about the hack remain under a gag order. The footage was posted on the Telegram account of a hacker group called Moses’ Staff on…
Hacker breaks into Zwijndrecht police server (updated)
The Brussels Times reports: A hacker broke into the server of the Zwijndrecht police zone and leaked thousands of license plates, fines and even police reports, VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported on Thursday this evening. […] VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported that the hacker was able to see all data from…
Ca: Riverside Health Care reports privacy breach was due to inappropriate access of EMR by a staff member
Press Release: Riverside Health Care recently concluded an investigation into a privacy breach that was the result of a staff member inappropriately accessing patient electronic medical records. The inappropriately accessed personal health information was not disclosed or otherwise used by the staff member. Steps were immediately taken to prevent further inappropriate access to personal health…