Damien Bancal reports (machine translation): At the end of May, the Canadian College MontMorency announced that it had suffered a cyber attack with a possible theft of personal data. ZATAZ confirms: pirates have copied everything, and they are starting to broadcast. Read more at Zataz. This was an Avos Locker attack.
Category: Non-U.S.
Shanghai data breach exposes suppression of ‘white-hat’ security research in China
Jane Tang for RFA Mandarin reports: Ren, a U.S. citizen who has lived in China for decades, didn’t realize she was the victim of what could be the biggest data breach in Chinese history until she got a call from RFA. She held her breath as, one by one, her ID card number, date of…
Chinese authorities summon Alibaba executives over data breach
Zack Marzouk reports: Chinese authorities have reportedly called in Alibaba cloud executives for talks over the police database data breach that emerged at the start of July. Alibaba is carrying out an investigation of its own into how the data breach of over a billion people happened, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The breach, one of…
University of Windsor restores ‘vast majority’ of systems after security breach
Jason Viau reports: The University of Windsor confirms it has restored the “vast majority” of its systems following a cyber security breach that temporarily shut down its website last month. On June 22, the university issued a notice that its website and other services were temporarily unavailable. Read more at CBC.
Russian Ministry for Digital Development proposes turnover fines for data breaches
RAPSI News reports: The Ministry for Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is preparing a bill on turnover-based fines for the personal data breach. This additional responsibility is to put business up to invest in the development of the information safety infrastructure and the personal data protection, a statement released on…
Razer sues IT firm Capgemini for over US$7m, wants full compensation for data leak
Clement Ooi reports: The civil suit between local gaming products company Razer and IT solutions provider Capgemini began in Singapore’s High Court today (Jul 13) Last year, Razer discovered a cybersecurity breach that revealed that the personal information of about 100,000 Razer customers could have been exposed. While no sensitive data such as credit card…