Translation of reporting by Samuel Gosselin Belanger: Premier Tech has been managing a real crisis for several days. The company confirmed, Friday morning, that the computer failure that has affected the company since Tuesday is in fact a cybersecurity incident. […] For the moment, the Rivière-du-Loup company refuses to say if a ransom has been…
Category: Non-U.S.
FR: CNIL Fines a Data Controller and Its Processor 225,000 Euros for Security Violation in Connection with Credential Stuffing
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On January 27, 2021, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced (in French) that it imposed a fine of €150,000 on a data controller, and a fine of €75,000 on its data processor, for failure to implement adequate security measures to protect customers’ personal data against credential stuffing attacks on the website…
Take responsibility when you are hacked, hacker advises Indian companies
So now ShinyHunters is telling Indian companies that they must take full responsibility if their data is hacked?
UKRI issues statement about ransomware attack
GC reports: The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has sustained a cyber attack adversely affecting several of its web assets, which has resulted in data being encrypted by a third party. After reporting the incident to the National Crime Agency, the National Cyber Security Centre and Information Commissioner’s Office, UKRI stated that at this point…
Ca: Pharmacist Fined for Breaching Health Information
Looks like I missed this announcement from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta on January 19: An Edmonton-based pharmacist received a $5,000 fine, plus a $1,000 victim fine surcharge, on Friday, Jan. 15 for using health information in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA). Stanislaus Soosai accessed and used the health information…
Hezbollah’s cyber unit hacked into telecoms and ISPs
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Hezbollah-affiliated threat actor known as Lebanese Cedar has been linked to intrusions at telco operators and internet service providers in the US, the UK, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and the UAE. The year-long hacking campaign started in early 2020 and was discovered by Israeli cyber-security firm…