Two Japanese firms have recently disclosed ransomware incidents. Sports Club NAS, a Daiwa House Group subsidiary, issued the following statement (machine translated): Apology and report of unauthorized access to our server. Membership management operated in some of our stores (9 stores in total) on April 2, 2021 due to unauthorized access to our server (hereinafter…
Category: Non-U.S.
Norway says Chinese group APT31 is behind catastrophic 2018 government hack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Norway’s police secret service said this week that APT31, a cyber-espionage group operating on behalf of China, was responsible for a 2018 breach of the government’s IT network. According to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), the 2018 hack was as bad as it could get. “The investigation revealed that the actor…
Ca: Hackers steal data from 2,300 people at CIUSSS de l’Est de Montréal
Logan Leo reports: The pandemic was devastating, CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal recovers from computer attack, which slows down operations. This cyber attack started in late May and we noticed it on June 3rd, Related to the founding Deputy Director General Jean-Francois Fortin Verriolt. Microsoft and the Department of Health’s Cyber Defense team successfully stopped the attackers on…
Se: Medhelp will pay 12 million SEK after the 1177 leak
SEK 12 million in penalty fees against the company Medhelp, half a million against the Stockholm Region and SEK 250,000 against each against Sörmland and Värmland. This is the outcome of the review made by the Privacy Protection Authority in the case of the millions of 1177 calls that were left unprotected on the internet….
Gateley suffers data breach following ‘cyber security incident’
Ben Edwards reports: UK listed law firm Gateley said that it has suffered a cyberattack, according to a filing to the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The firm’s incident response is described in somewhat interesting terms: “The impacted data was traced quickly and deleted from the location to which it had been downloaded and there…
SCOOP: UnitingCare paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to REvil for decryption key and deletion of files
On April 25, UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ) was the victim of a ransomware attack that impacted multiple Queensland hospitals and aged care centres. The next day, they posted a notice on their web site informing people as to what was happening and its impact. And on May 5, they posted a second update where they revealed…