Diane Taylor reports: The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week. More than 170 email addresses were accidentally copied into a message on 7 April 2022 about the change of location for a…
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Ca: University Life Sciences students facing mass data breach Life Sciences students facing mass data breach
Asbah Ahmad reports: Confidential student information in the Life Sciences department was disseminated via email on Apr. 7. The information included student GPAs, student names, student numbers, academic plans, and years of study as of Sept. 2021. Students’ sexes and email addresses were also compromised. Read more at The Queens University Journal.
CitySprint confirms security breach involing iFleet System, warns delivery drivers their personal data may be in the hands of hackers
Graham Cluley writes: Same-day delivery firm CitySprint has warned couriers it has suffered a data breach that may have allowed hackers to access their sensitive personal data. An email sent on April 7th to thousands of drivers confirming that a security breach had occurred. Read more at GrahamCluley.com. There is no indication in his report…
Russian hackers tried to sabotage Ukrainian power grid – officials, researchers
Reuters reports: Russian hackers attempted to launch a destructive cyberattack on Ukraine’s electricity grid last week, Ukrainian officials and cybersecurity researchers said on Tuesday. The group, dubbed “Sandworm” by security researchers and previously tied to destructive cyberattacks attributed to Russia, deployed destructive and data-wiping malware on computers controlling high voltage substations in Ukraine, the Computer…
Massive data leak of devotees from Meenakshi temple, admin claims technical glitch
Azeefa Fathima reports: The data of thousands of persons who had registered for attending the annual Chithirai festival of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple, was leaked via an email sent to those who registered on the temple’s website. The leaked data includes the names, contact details, ID proofs (Aadhaar, pan card, etc). Meanwhile, the officials…
Ph: NBI raids house of ex-Smartmatic employee tagged in ‘data breach’
There is yet another update in the investigation into a security breach involving the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) vendor Smartmatic. As of April 1, Smartmatic had acknowledged a data leak, but said it had dealt with the problem and fired the employee involved. Now we learn that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has…