Felipe Cardoso reports (translation): Celg Geração e Transmissão (Celg GT) – reported, on the morning of this Friday, the 19th, that it suffered, during the night, a cyber attack that left access to the entire corporate network of applications and files compromised. It has not yet been possible to identify the extent of the damage…
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De: Police are investigating a cyber attack on paint manufacturer Remmers
NDR reports (translation): So far unknown perpetrators have carried out a cyber attack on the Löningen chemical company Remmers. This is reported by NDR 1 Lower Saxony. The lacquer and paint manufacturer from the district of Cloppenburg therefore had to stop large parts of its production. A company spokesman said at noon that some areas have now been…
NZ: Lumino dental firm email hack: Patient information accessed
Nicholas Pointon reports: A dental company with 120 practices nationwide is confident a data breach at a Wellington surgery was an isolated incident. Wellington Oral Surgery, which is owned by Lumino, discovered on Monday a staff member’s email account had been hacked and patients’ personal information had been accessed. The company sent out a notice…
SG: Revised Guides on Managing Data Breach and Active Enforcement Now Available
An announcement from the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore: The PDPC has updated Guide to Managing Data Breaches 2.0 (now known as the Guide on Managing and Notifying Data Breaches under the PDPA) with details of the mandatory data breach notification requirement under the PDPA. Access the Guide here. The Guide on Active Enforcement has…
Acer Data Breach, Sodinokibi ransomware group publishes first stolen data
Marco A. DeFelice reports: The Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware group publishes on its website, within the Tor networks, the first documents stolen from Acer during a recent cyber attack. Acer, headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of computers, monitors, HD Ready televisions, virtual reality devices, smartphones and many other electronic products….
Malaysia call centre worker jailed for retrieving Singtel customer details that were later sold to loan sharks
Lydia Lam reports: A team leader at a call centre in Malaysia handling technical support for Singtel customers helped an ex-colleague retrieve information from more than 1,000 business accounts belonging to licensed moneylenders. The information, which included bills, company names and landline numbers, was later used by data sellers to carry out loan sharking activities….