Emma Dukes reports: Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust said the incident began on Monday evening (November 25), with staff members at the hospital telling LiverpoolWorld that a “cyber attack” had caused the computer systems to go down. The Trust – which comprises Arrowe Park Hospital, Clatterbridge Hospitals and the Wirral Women and Children’s Hospital – confirmed that a “major…
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Ca: LifeLab loses its last attempt to withhold data breach forensics report from public eyes
It’s been a long battle, but transparency has prevailed. LifeLabs LP v. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) stemmed from a cyberattack in 2019 that resulted in the compromise of 15 million Canadian’s data. LifeLab eventually complied with inquiries by the Privacy Commissioner, who requested that LifeLab provide its forensics report and other documents, but LifeLab…
Irish researcher finds 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked
James Cox reports: A Dublin cybersecurity researcher, Aaron Costello, has found that 1.1 million NHS employee records were leaked online because of improper configuration settings in Microsoft Power Pages, a software platform used by over 250 million people a month to build websites. Mr Costello, who works with AppOmni, previously discovered a computer glitch meant the HSE’s…
What You Need to Know about China’s Regulations on the Management of Network Data Security
Clyde & Co write: The new Regulations on the Management of Network Data Security (《网络数据安全管理条例》) [1] (the “Regulations”) were issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (“China”) on 24 September 2024 and will come into force on 1 January 2025. With a focus on network data [2], the Regulations supplemented and…
Ransomware: Hunters International decentralizes storage
Reporting this via a Google translation of an article originally published in French. Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports: The brand provides its affiliates with Linux software allowing them to maintain complete control over the data stolen from their victims. The file is called “storage_linux_x64.” It is an executable for Linux. It is among the data of two…
JP: Yakuza Helpline Leak Sparks Fears for Victim Safety
Here’s today’s reminder that it’s not always the huge-number breaches that pose the most risk or actual physical danger to people. Anosha Shariq reports: A helpline for Yakuza victims faces a shocking data breach, exposing personal details of 2,500 individuals and sparking fears of retaliation and safety risks. A tragic irony has unfolded as the…