Brendan Burke of The Peterborough Examiner reports: There’s nothing to suggest patients’ confidential information has been compromised after a cybersecurity incident forced Peterborough County-City Paramedics’ data collecting software system to be shut down earlier this week, says Chief Randy Mellow. “There’s absolutely no evidence that this incident has caused any medical or personal information to…
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Indian govt Govt plans penalty of up to Rs 500 crore for data breach
Pankaj Doval reports: The government on Friday released the draft personal data protection bill, seeking to provide a framework for a strict user-consent regime for data processing, along with a penalty of up to Rs 500 crore for data breaches by social media and net companies while offering concessions to tech firms. Read more about…
Vanuatu island hit by ransom attack, cripples government
WION reports: The small archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu, was attacked by ransomware on 4 November, Friday and stranded the country for over a week. According to civil servants in the government, they noticed that their official emails started bouncing back from government addresses, this was the first sign when they found that…
New South Wales gets first state-based data breach notice scheme
Justin Hendry reports: New South Wales will have Australia’s first mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities in place within a year after state government legislation passed Parliament. The Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Bill underpinning the long-promised regime sailed through the Legislative Council last night without amendment, having passed the Legislative Assembly…
UK: Reading clinic leaked the email addresses of 288 patients in an emailed invitation
Jay Jay reports: The South Reading & Shinfield Group Medical Practice, a healthcare clinic in Reading, recently leaked the email addresses of many of its patients after clinic officials included their email addresses in an emailed invitation. Source: Teiss
Transparency International blasts Malaysian govt for apathetic reaction to data leaks
MalaysiaKini reports: Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) has expressed deep concern over the recurring pattern of data leaks from Malaysian government agencies that are empowered and entrusted with personal data. “Media reports last week revealed that data from the voting portal MySPR was publicly on sale on the internet. It was also reported that the caretaker…