Michael Pavitt reports: Login identification and passwords of some Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games ticketholders has reportedly been leaked online. Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted an unnamed Government official, who said the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee had launched an investigation into the issue. Read more on InsideTheGames.
Category: Non-U.S.
De: Hidden crypto farm in Frankfurt restaurant exposed
Hessenchau reports: During hygiene checks in a Frankfurt restaurant, investigators came across a suspected crypto farm. This is not only illegal, but also dangerous in this case: the computers were next to gas bottles. While inspecting a restaurant in downtown Frankfurt, investigators from the city police came across a suspected crypto farm. It was literally…
NZ: Fear patient data may have been stolen from Auckland DHBs
Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: A data breach may have occurred at the organisation that provides health IT services to more than a third of the country, amid growing indications of a serious cyber-security incident. A spokeswoman for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said it was notified by Counties Manukau DHB of a possible data breach…
Ca: Health unit privacy breach exposes email addresses of 500 residents of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton
KawarthaNOW reports: The Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit has reported a privacy breach, in which a mass email sent to around 500 residents in Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, and Haliburton exposed their email addresses to anyone who received the email. Read more on KawarthaNOW
German pharmacies stop issuing COVID vaccine passes after security breach
Update: I had originally linked to a report on Reuters. @Ju916 tweeted to me: First of all those were no threat actors but security researches demonstrating problems of the system in good faith. Second: those digital certificates are just comodity items. The original document (a yellow vaccination passport) can replace them in any situation. Because…
Gun owners’ fears after firearms dealer data breach
Holly Clemens & Chris Vallance report: Thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a leading website for buying and selling shotguns and rifles have been published to the dark web following a “security breach”. Guntrader.uk told the BBC it learned of the breach on Monday and had notified the Information Commissioner’s Office….