John Davidson reports: TPG Telecom has confirmed that data freely available to download on the dark web belongs to one of its customers, following a cyber security breach of TPG’s servers in April. The 5 gigabyte download, available at no charge on at least one dark web site, comes from one of the customers of…
Category: Non-U.S.
In: Data security breach affects private schools; are lazy government employees to blame?
The Hindu reports: Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) database. “Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) are tasked with updating data from all the schools in their respective clusters. However,…
UK: Customers hit as ransomware incident blacks out Doncaster insurance firm
We were so busy watching the Colonial Pipeline situation here that we appear to have missed a ransomware incident in the U.K. of note. It started typically enough, with the Doncaster Free Press reporting on May 14 that One Call Insurance had been hit the previous day, and customers were unable to reach the firm….
In: Hacking, Data Theft Attract Offences Under IPC Also, Not Just Information Technology Act : Supreme Court
Mehal Jain reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of the IPC. Read more on LiveLaw.in. Related: Order.
Riagg files of thousands of patients open and exposed in a basement
The this post uses machine translation of a report in Dutch. It concerns the discovery of patient files on CDs found unsecured in the basement of a building that, until 2015, was a former mental health institution — the Riagg Rijnmond Foundation. Rutger de QuayRik Wassens report that the young man who found the files…
Bizarro banking malware targets 70 banks in Europe and South America
Ionut Ilascu reports: A banking trojan named Bizarro that originates from Brazil has crossed the borders and started to target customers of 70 banks in Europe and South America. Once landed on a Windows system, the malware can force users into entering banking credentials and uses social engineering to steal two-factor authentication codes. Read more…