Sebastian Bron reports: About 230 patients at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton had their health records recently faxed to the wrong person in what the hospital attributed to an “error.” St. Joe’s said in a release Friday that the misdirected faxes — which occurred between 2020 and 2021 — came to light after a comprehensive review…
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Alberta OIPC’s 2022 PIPA Breach Report – Trends and Key Takeaways
John Cassell, Imran Ahmad,and Miranda Sharpe of Norton Rose Fulbright write: On July 27, 2022, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (OIPC) released its 2022 PIPA Breach Report.[1] The report analyzes the nearly 2,000 breach reports[2] received by the OIPC during the ten year period since reporting was mandated in Alberta under…
Au: WA Health sorry over monkeypox data breach
Michael Ramsey reports: Western Australia’s health department has apologised for accidentally leaking the personal details of passengers aboard a flight carrying a person infected with monkeypox. A woman who travelled on the flight from Doha last week said she received the document in an email from WA Health. It contained the personal information of 47…
Chile: Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo spared from financial losses in BEC attack by alert bank
ENAP (Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo), is a Chilean state-owned company engaged in the exploitation, production, refining, and marketing of oil and its derivatives. It reports administratively to the Ministry of Energy. As Nicolas Parra Tapia and Felipe Diaz Montero recently reported, well-known Nigerian cybercriminals had targeted ENAP in a wire transfer scheme. It was only…
U.K.: South Staffordshire Water says it was target of cyber attack as criminals bungle extortion attempt
It is not unheard of for ransomware groups to publicly misidentify their victims. We saw such errors from the outset of groups publicly naming and shaming victims and leaking data. DataBreaches reported on a few such cases involving Maze and has reported on other misidentifications in other groups since then. DataBreaches has occasionally contacted threat…
Pl: Hackers have attacked a company that provides remote reading of water meters
Wojciech Karpieszuk reports that the Marymont Potok cooperative announced the attack on Thursday. Machine translation: We don’t know what this entails, whether the data is safe, or whether the readings will be falsified,” says Mr. Janusz from Marymont. A customer notes that the switch to remote reading was supposed to prevent fraud, but if hackers…