CBC News reports: When Louis heard the province’s digital transformation minister say on Tuesday that quick response (QR) codes “cannot be falsified, modified or copied,” he took it as a challenge. “There’s always a flaw,” he said. “It’s just a matter of being patient enough to find it.” […] within six hours, Louis said he…
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Ex-employee, staff booked for data theft from Ghaziabad firm
The Times of India reports: GHAZIABAD: Two people have been booked by Ghaziabad police for allegedly stealing data from a cosmetics company. The accused have also demanded Rs 1 crore from the owner of the company in return of the data. The accused have been identified as Gaurav Kumar and Sun ii Kumar. Manoj Garg,…
Crooks use name of Europol boss for phishing mail
Alan Hope reports: The Computer Crime Unit of the federal police is investigating a case of identity theft involving Catherine De Bolle, the executive director of the EU’s law enforcement agency Europol. Despite De Bolle having taken the new job in 2018, the case appears to be centred on Belgium. Police have received hundreds of…
Nearly 73,500 patients’ data affected in ransomware attack on eye clinic in Singapore
Kenny Chee reports: A ransomware attack earlier this month has affected the personal data and clinical information of nearly 73,500 patients of a private eye clinic, the third such reported incident in a month. The information included names, addresses, identity card numbers, contact details and clinical information such as patients’ clinical notes and eye scans,…
Educational institution ROC Mondriaan in The Hague victim of major cyber attack
CrimeInfo.nl reports: The ROC Mondriaan educational institution in The Hague was hacked last weekend. All computers are down, which means that employees and students cannot access their files. The school is doing everything it can to get the system up and running again by next Monday. The MBO school has started a forensic investigation into the…
NL: Data leak at Radboudumc hospital was caused by former employee
This is a Google translation of a story in Dutch: The data breach at Radboudumc in Nijmegen is due to a former employee, the hospital reports in an update . Due to the leak, the data of an unknown number of employees is on the street. The hospital discovered the data breach earlier this month. Names, login names, email addresses and…