Roja Mayabrahma reports: The Cyberabad police on Thursday busted a fake call centre racket and arrested a seven-member gang. A total of Rs 1.11 crore cash, four laptops, 23 mobile phones, debit cards, cheque books and other articles from them. The arrested persons were identified as Naveen Bhutani (41), Mohit (32), Nagaraju Bondada (36), D…
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Saved by the backups: Hospital Centro de Andalucia recovered quickly from ransomware attack
Some ransomware groups have pledged not to attack healthcare facilities. Vice Society is not one of them, as their recent attack on a Spanish hospital reminds us. Amaveca Salud provides a number of in-patient and outpatient services and therapies. Last year, they inaugurated a private hospital, Hospital Centro de Andalucia in Lucena, Spain. When…
South African justice department clueless about hacked data
It’s not exactly the headline you’d want for your agency, but that’s what MyBroadband came up with for this report by Myles Illidge: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has no idea whether any data was stolen during a ransomware attack on its systems in September 2021. “The Department cannot tell with certainty as to…
PhL Comelec official calls data breach report ‘fake news’
Jauhn Etienne Villaruel reports: A Commission on Elections (Comelec) official for the first time on Wednesday categorically denied its systems were hacked that allegedly compromised sensitive data as claimed by a newspaper report published Monday. Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022 In a tweet, Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon labelled as “fake news” the…
Canadian privacy breach: Names of unvaccinated DDSB staff accidentally shared
Jillian Follert reports: A recent privacy breach at the Durham District School Board (DDSB) resulted in the names of staff who are not vaccinated for COVID-19, or have not disclosed their status, inadvertently being shared with about 400 people. The breach happened when the board sent out a “routine” email about rapid testing. Attached to…
Ph: Court records stolen
Some data breaches remain low-tech. Ed Amoroso reports on the theft of paper court records — but 18 sacks of them on a three-wheeler (tricycle)? Amoroso reports that the man, identified as John Carlo Lumbres of Tanauan City, was arrested for stealing records of criminal cases in Batangas. Seized from Lumbres were 18 sacks containing…