Dyane Connor reports: The cyber attackers who hacked the Health Service Executive’s IT system, had accessed the system eight weeks before it detonated the malicious software, which caused devastating disruption across healthcare services. A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found there were several “missed opportunities” after a phishing email was opened allowing the attacker access…
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News Group settle News of the World and Sun hacking claims, Statements in Open Court
On 8 and 9 December 2021 the settlement of a 15 phone hacking claims against News Group Newspapers were announced. A series of statements in open court were read before Fancourt J, culminating in a high profile and hard hitting unilateral statement in open court by Sienna Miller. This claim was against the Sun alone. Her statement in…
LINE Pay leaks data from approximately 133,000 users to GitHub of all places
Sunaina reports: LINE Pay, a smartphone payment provider, announced yesterday that between September and November of this year, approximately 133,000 users’ payment details were inadvertently published on GitHub. A research group employee accidentally uploaded files detailing participants in a LINE Pay promotional programme staged between late December 2020 and April 2021 to the collaborative coding…
18 fake birth certificates generated in Hisar after health department hacked
TNN reports that the Hisar health department was hacked and 18 fake birth certificates were generated. The hack and faked certificates were reportedly known five months ago but a case is just being filed now, it seems. Read more at Times of India
Ransomware attack hits French-Public School Board, employee and student data stolen
Phillip Blancher reports from Ottawa: An October 18 ransomware attack has left personal data exposed by the local French-Public school board. The Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario issued a press release November 30 announcing it had been attacked, and that after resecuring the network it was discovered that some files stored at…
Z-CERT: “Small healthcare institutions are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare institutions, such as hospitals”
Interview with the director Wim Hafkamp and security specialist Jan Hanstede of Z-CERT by the DeCrisis manager Which type of healthcare institutions do you feel are the most vulnerable to such a threat? “Small healthcare facilities are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. This is because they have less feeling for IT. They…