In December of 2021, Thailand’s National Cyber Security Agency launched after being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, it announced that it intended to roll out 40 subordinate regulations of the Cybersecurity Act this year to strengthen the country’s systems. It sounds like an ambitious — but badly needed — update. For the past…
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Perth Festival, Black Swan Theatre and other arts organisations hit by major data breach
Rebeccca Trigger reports: Western Australia’s biggest arts organisations, including the Perth Festival, Black Swan State Theatre Company, the WA ballet and WA opera have been subject to a massive data breach that has compromised customers’ personal information. Customers received an email this afternoon from the Arts and Culture Trust saying third-party software used by the…
China fines Didi $1.2bn over ‘egregious’ data security violations
AlJazeera reports: China has fined ride-hailing giant Didi almost $1.2bn for “egregious” violations of data security rules, capping a year-long probe that torpedoed the startup’s stock price and forced its delisting from the United States stock market. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said on Thursday it fined the startup 8.026 billion yuan after finding…
37,800 people sent privacy breach notifications linked to Newfoundland and Labrador cyberattack
Rob Antle reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority has notified 37,800 people that their privacy was breached as part of last fall’s devastating cyberattack. That number equates to about one in every 13 people in the province. And according to Eastern Health, it could go even higher. Those affected include patients, along with current…
Ca: Waterloo Region District School Board hit by cyberattack
Kate Bueckert reports: The Waterloo Region District School Board says it’s working to restore its IT system and safeguard personal information of staff, students and families after it was the target of a cyberattack. “We intend to do whatever is within our ability to resolve this issue,” said a statement from the board’s communications officer, Estefania…
CERT-MX suffers credibility #FAIL, accuses DataBreaches.net of disclosing unauthorized info.
Is Mexico’s CERT / Guardia Nacional suffering from heat exhaustion, bad AI, or political pressure? How else can we explain their bizarre attempt to take down this site? Long-time readers of this site know that over the past 16 years or so that I have been blogging, I have been the recipient of all kinds…