The Czech Republic Institut plánování a rozvoje hl. m. Prahy (IPR) (the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital The City of Prague (IPR) reported (machine translation) that it had been infected with a crypto miner virus which used the computing capacity of the institute for crypto currency mining. For preventive reasons, it was necessary to…
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UK: Sepa recovery from ransomware attack could take years
BBC reports: Scotland’s environmental watchdog has said it could take years to fully recover from a cyber attack. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) had more than 4,000 digital files stolen by hackers on Christmas Eve. Chief executive Terry A’Hearn revealed it is now building a new IT system from scratch. Sepa said it had backup…
HSE seeks order to help find who uploaded or downloaded files stolen in cyberattack
Ann O’Loughlin reports: Over 20 people either uploaded or downloaded confidential information stolen in last month’s cyberattack on the HSE onto a web service provided by a Google-owned internet security firm, the High Court has heard. Mr Justice Tony O’Connor was told on Friday that late last month approximately 27 files stolen from the HSE…
Ca: Hay River health authority warns of potential privacy breach after break-in at local hospital
CBC News reports: There’s been another apparent break-in at a Hay River, N.W.T., health facility, according to the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority, and this time, there may have been a privacy breach. During the early morning hours on Monday, there was a break and enter at H.H. Williams Memorial Hospital, a Thursday…
Hackers leak 260,000 accounts from Pakistani music streaming site Patari
Waqas reports: Patari or Patari.pk, a Pakistani music streaming site has suffered a data breach in which its database containing personal data and login credentials of over 257,000 registered users has been leaked on English and Russian language hacker forums. The exact date of the data breach remains unknown however the database was dumped online…
City of Liege, Belgium hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Liege, the third biggest city in Belgium, has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the municipality’s IT network and online services. Following the attack, most of the city’s civil status and population services are down, Liege officials said on a status page today. Read more on The Record.