Dan Singleton reports: The Town of Didsbury was the victim of a cyber-attack on Sunday, March 21 when fraudsters encrypted the town’s information systems with ransomware and made a ransom demand to decrypt the system, town officials said Friday. Mayor Rhonda Hunter declined to say whether the Town of Didsbury has paid a ransom to…
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More details emerged about FatFace ransomware attack
An attack on FatFace was already attracting media attention for the firm’s attempt to get people to keep their breach notification email confidential. Naturally, it got more attention that way. But on March 27, SuspectFile reported that the breach, first disclosed at the end of March, was more serious than what had been revealed previously….
In: Threat actor offers to sell 8 TB of MobiKwik’s personal and financial data on almost 100M consumers
UPDATE1: MobiKwik is denying any breach. DataBreaches.net just received a statement from them: “Some media-crazed so-called security researchers have repeatedly attempted to present concocted files wasting precious time of our organization as well as members of the media. We thoroughly investigated and did not find any security lapses. Our user and company data is completely…
Bedfordshire: Cyber-attack destroys school pupils’ coursework
BBC reports: Pupils’ coursework has been destroyed in a “significant” cyber-attack on a school. Redborne Upper School and Community College in Bedfordshire said the attack took place on Wednesday. Although no data was taken, the school’s servers were left unreadable resulting in “the loss of a significant amount of data”, it added. Read more on…
Ca: Simon Fraser University sued over recent data breach
Jaymee Salisi reports: Following SFU’s data breach on February 3, 2021, BC law firm Slater Vecchio LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the university on behalf of the 200,000 individuals affected by the incident. The lawsuit argues that SFU students should have a higher safety standard for the storage of their personal information. In Slater Vecchio LLP’s lawsuit notice,…
AU: Service NSW unable to notify 54,000 customers impacted by cyber attack
Justin Hendry reports: Service NSW has been unable to reach more than half the 104,000 customers who had their personal information stolen in an email compromise attack against 47 staff members last year. The data breach, which exposed 736GB of data between March and early April 2020, is also now likely to cost up to…