Jaymee Salisi reports: Following SFU’s data breach on February 3, 2021, BC law firm Slater Vecchio LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the university on behalf of the 200,000 individuals affected by the incident. The lawsuit argues that SFU students should have a higher safety standard for the storage of their personal information. In Slater Vecchio LLP’s lawsuit notice,…
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AU: Service NSW unable to notify 54,000 customers impacted by cyber attack
Justin Hendry reports: Service NSW has been unable to reach more than half the 104,000 customers who had their personal information stolen in an email compromise attack against 47 staff members last year. The data breach, which exposed 736GB of data between March and early April 2020, is also now likely to cost up to…
NZ: Canterbury District Health Board apologizes for software privacy breach
Lee Kenny reports: Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) has apologised for a software coding error which allowed people to see other patients’ private information when they booked a Covid-19 vaccination appointment. The error meant the details of 716 individuals who had registered were potentially able to be viewed. Read more on Stuff.
Fr: MND victim of a cyberattack
AOF (Translation): The MND group was the victim, on the night of March 22 to 23, 2021, of a malicious software intrusion on some of its servers in France and Austria. For security reasons, all the group’s servers have been disconnected and stopped in order to avoid any propagation to the rest of the information system. “This…
Data breach at car companies may affect millions of Dutch people
Joost Schellevis reports (translated): The private addresses and telephone numbers of potentially millions of Dutch people have fallen into the hands of criminals. They have been stolen from a company that provides car garages with ICT services. In addition to name and address details, it also concerns e-mail addresses, license plates, telephone numbers and dates of birth,…
NXIVM sex-cult leader Keith Raniere under fire after lawyers accidentally reveal victim names in court docs
Noah Goldberg reports: Convicted sex-cult guru Keith Raniere and his legal team are in hot water for accidentally revealing the names of victims of the NXIVM leader in court documents Tuesday. The feds responded quickly, asking Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis to seal the documents, which he agreed to and which was done early…