Durham Radio News reports: Durham Region has been hit by a recent cyberattack and experts are working to figure out what information may have been compromised. That’s according to a statement from the region, which can be read below. They say the vulnerability has since been addressed and the regional systems have been secured. There’s…
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SG: Possible data breach involving 62,000 e-mails sent to Certis
Kenny Chee reports: About 62,000 e-mails from the public, businesses and customers of local security firm Certis, some containing NRIC and credit card numbers, may have been accessed by cyber criminals, the company said on Friday (April 9). This includes customers of Certis’ safe deposit box service. The e-mails all came from a customer service…
Ransomware attacks: Ansal fears data loss
PTI reports: Realty firm Ansal Housing on Friday said that the company had faced multiple ransomware attacks on its IT system since February 26, which may have resulted in some data loss. The e-mail system had been significantly impacted resulting in non-receipt of any e-mail communication on the e-mail accounts, it said in a regulatory…
Hogan Lovells Asia Pacific Data Protection and Cyber Security Guide 2021
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Fr: City of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue victim of ransomware; won’t pay €500,000 demand
Daniel Morin reports (translation): This is the first time that the city of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse) has been the victim of such a computer attack , undoubtedly from abroad. It was 4:42 am exactly this Friday morning when hackers broke into the community’s servers remotely. All files have been encrypted and have been unusable since. “…
CZ: Olomouc paralyzed by a cyberattack. All municipal services remain unavailable.
From translations of available sources, it appears that the municipality of was paralyzed by a cyber attack on April 7. The municipality estimated that it would take about 14 days to fully restore services. They do not indicate what kind of ransomware was involved or what demands were made. Read more on Olomouc.cz. Last April,…