Coco Feng reports: The telecoms authority of China’s eastern Zhejiang province has told the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding that it violated the country’s Cybersecurity Law and should make rectifications following a complaint about a 2019 information leak. In a letter dated July 5, the Zhejiang Communications Administration (ZCA) said it found Alibaba Cloud “disclosed…
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Hackers Release Data Trove From Belarus in Bid to Overthrow Lukashenko Regime
Ryan Gallagher reports: Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part of a broad effort to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, as the hackers call themselves, have in recent weeks released portions of a huge data trove…
Au: Latest OAIC data breach report: a reduction in notifications but persistent concerns about cyber security incidents
Kate Marshall, Veronica Scott, and Jason Kaye of KPMG Law write: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) now releases bi-annual reports on data breaches that are reported under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). Its latest report for the period of January 2021 to June 2021 show…
Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Hit by Ransomware Attack
As seen on Tokio Marine Insurance’s web site: August 16, 2021 Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. Cyber Incident at Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Ltd. We announce that Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Ltd. (hereafter referred to as “TMiS”), one of Tokio Marine Group companies in Singapore, was subject to a ransomware cyber-attack. Upon a detection of the…
NZ: An isolated ransomware attack occurred on 21 July at the Search and Rescue Base at Aoraki/Mount Cook.
DOC reports: Department of Conservation Deputy Director General Corporate Services Rachel Bruce says DOC will be in contact with 11 people whose personal information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. “An isolated ransomware attack occurred on 21 July at the Search and Rescue Base at Aoraki/Mount Cook. “The Search and Rescue (SAR) base…
Singapore real estate firm breached by ALTDOS
Singapore-based OrangeTee appears to have suffered a massive hack and data exfiltration by ALTDOS threat actors. “Your highly sophisticated work has exhausted us, both energy and financially,” the firm allegedly wrote to the threat actors on August 6. As this site previously reported, ALTDOS claimed responsibility for a recent attack on OrangeTee in Singapore. OrangeTee…