Art Samaniego reports: A hacker who calls himself IamNoobie told me that he was so pissed-off with the way government agencies implement security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”. IamNoobie noticed that the server of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has promising results when he Google…
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NL: Secondary school in Lochem pays ransom after cyber attack criminals
NOS reports: Staring College, with offices in Lochem and Borculo, has paid ransom to cyber criminals who locked files. School board member Carlien Krist-Spit tells Omroep Gelderland that payment has been made to prevent education from being given for a longer period of time. The school noted the attack on Tuesday. A lot of data suddenly turned out to…
Et tu, Canada? Evidence of Harm Required To Advance Class Action Following Data Breach
Ranjan Agarwal, Keely Cameron, J. Sébastien A. Gittens, and Justin Lambert of Bennett Jones write: Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta, in Setoguchi v Uber B.V., 2021 ABQB 18, recently dismissed an application for certification of a proposed class action resulting from a data breach because there was no evidence of harm or loss. This class…
Jamaica’s JamCOVID pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Jamaica’s JamCOVID app and website were taken offline late on Thursday following a third security lapse, which exposed quarantine orders on more than half a million travelers to the island. JamCOVID was set up last year to help the government process travelers arriving on the island. Quarantine orders are issued by the…
Private information of thousands who received Covid vaccine exposed in HSE blunder
Ailbhe Daly reports: The private information of thousands of people who have received the Covid-19 vaccine have been exposed following a HSE blunder. The IT system used by the HSE was compromised due to ‘human error’, meaning that confidential data was accessible despite earlier warnings by data chiefs. Crucial details that can often be used…
Ca: Lawyers file class-action lawsuit against Central Health over insider wrong-doing privacy breach
Tara Bradbury reports: Two St. John’s lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Central Regional Health Authority, seeking damages for consequences suffered by more than 200 patients whose private information was illegally accessed. “The plaintiffs in this case suffered distress, humiliation, anger, upset, mental anguish, shock, fear of identity theft, uncertainty as to how…