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…
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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…
Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak
Yang Jie and Liza Lin report: A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed the scraping, a Chinese court verdict said. The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in November…
Thai government apologises for data leak, blames “temporary glitch
Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…