Alice Liana Galli reports: A woman stalked by a radiographer after he stole her NHS files has spoken for the first time about the impact of his actions on her life and how she moved home. Waiving her anonymity, Vivien Hamilton spoke to The Ferret because she wants to help other women who may be…
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De: Another data breach in COVID-19 test centers
Jana Ballweber reports (translation) After glaring security deficiencies in the IT of Corona test centers became known in March, thousands of test results including personal data could be found online again. Security experts from the “Zerforschung” group managed to view the names, addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, email addresses and test results of over 14,000 people tested from centers in Hamburg,…
Br: Leak exposes 1.7 TB of customer data from Brazilian fintech iugu
Felipe Demartini reports (translation): A serious security breach exposed the information of, it is believed, all customers of the iugu services company, which operates in Brazil through financial management and automation systems. Users’ personal, banking and transaction data was available on an unprotected server for at least an hour. The discovery is by security expert…
Ca: Durham Region hit by cyberattack
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…
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…