Mehedi Hasan reports: Kasablanca, a hacker group, has targeted cyberattacks on at least six well-known Bangladeshi financial and government organisations, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (e-Gov CIRT), the state organisation responsible for securing the country’s cyberspace. The organisations are Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, bKash, BRAC Bank, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Corona.gov.bd. The reason…
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UK: Council apologizes for free school meals payment data breach
Email gaffes are still a thing, too. Kevin O’Sullivan reports: A Scottish local authority has apologised for a data breach after sending details of 600 free school meals claimants to ‘multiple’ email accounts. Scottish Borders council sent out the email in an IT blunder as it tried to contact 1,300 residents to inform them of…
NY Department of Financial Services Issues Cyber Fraud Alert to Regulated Entities Using Instant Quote Websites
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On February 16, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a Cyber Fraud Alert (the “Alert”) to regulated entities in light of a growing campaign to steal Nonpublic Information (“NPI”), as defined under New York law, from public-facing websites that provide instant quotes for products like auto insurance (“Instant Quote…
Ca: Saint John won’t pay ransom to hackers, city manager says
Julia Wright of CBC reports: The city of Saint John has no plans to pay hackers a ransom after its network was attacked three months ago. In his regular update to common council Monday, city manager John Collin said the city had a backup system in place and “the vast majority” of the data has…
PH: NPC finds data breach in cash-loaning app
Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat has an update on the Cashalo breach, noted previously. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said its initial findings showed data breach on cash-loaning application Cashalo where a certain user was found selling personal information of 3.3 million users. NPC said this following its preliminary probe on the data security issue of Cashalo, which…
Transport for NSW confirms data taken in Accellion breach
Aras Barbaschow reports: Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack on a file transfer system owned by Accellion. Read more on ZDNet.