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Medibank defends decision to not pay hackers ransom for stolen data as it contacts 480,000 customers

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Dissent

Nassim Khadem and Daniel Ziffer report: Medibank’s boss says the company will begin directly communicating with nearly half a million customers whose health data is believed to have been stolen, weeks after it first became aware hackers had breached its customer database. Medibank’s chief executive David Koczkar said the company had today started communicating with…

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AU: Legal Aid ACT won’t pay hackers’ ransom demands

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Dissent

Lottie Twyford reports: Legal Aid ACT has confirmed it will not pay the ransom demanded by the hackers who earlier this month stole private information from the commission. That hack could have exposed the data of some of the organisation’s most vulnerable clients, including refugees and victims of family violence. Read more at The Riot…

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U.K.: Suffolk police publish sensitive info of sexual assault victims online in data protection failure

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Dissent

Why would other victims ever come forward and report their assaults when they cannot trust the police to protect their reports? This is an appalling breach, and an “investigation” isn’t going to undo any harm that has been done. What exactly is going to be done to mitigate harm to the victims of this data…

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Whoosh confirms data breach after hackers sell 7.2M user records

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: The Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh has confirmed a data breach after hackers started to sell a database containing the details of 7.2 million customers on a hacking forum. Whoosh is Russia’s leading urban mobility service platform, operating in 40 cities with over 75,000 scooters. On Friday, a threat actor began selling the…

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Hong Kong regulator issues investigative report on 2021 Fotomax ransomware incident

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Dissent

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) in Hong Kong published an investigation report today concerning a ransomware attack on the database of Fotomax (F.E.) Limited. From the news release: The investigation arose from a data breach notification lodged by Fotomax with the PCPD on 1 November 2021, which reported that the…

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UK: Hacked evidence and stolen data swamp English courts

Posted on November 13, 2022 by Dissent

Franz Wild, Ed Siddons, Simon Lock, Jonathan Calvert, and George Arbuthnott report: A multimillion-pound high court case between an authoritarian Gulf emirate and an Iranian-American businessman has revealed how hacked evidence is being used by leading law firms to advance their clients’ claims. It includes allegations that a former Metropolitan Police officer hired Indian hackers…

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