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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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.
Brazil medical firm Fleury hit by cyberattack
Jake Spring reports: Brazilian medical lab company Fleury SA (FLRY3.SA) said in a securities filing that a cyberattack had resulted in a partial outage of its information technology systems on Tuesday. Read more on Reuters. Update of June 27: REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware operators have added Fleury to their leak site. The threat actors claim to have acquired…
Cyberattack on Polish government officials linked to Russian hackers
Maggie Miller reports: A recent string of cyberattacks targeted at thousands of Polish email users, including government officials, have been linked by the Polish intelligence services to a Russian hacking group. “The findings of the Internal Security Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Service show that the UNC1151 group is behind the recent hacker attacks that…
UK: Every business in the South East to get access to Police CyberAlarm
Here’s one proactive approach to helping businesses and organizations keep current on the threat landscape: The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) has today (21/6) announced that every business and organisation in the region can now get access to a free tool called Police CyberAlarm, designed to help them understand and monitor the threats…