François Manens reports (translation): 50,000 user accounts of French hospital agents are for sale on a cybercriminal forum. This data could allow buyers to access the computer networks of certain health establishments. Once introduced to the system, criminals can deploy their ransomware and cripple the hospital. New alert for French hospitals, this time launched by the monitoring site…
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Fr: The city of Chalon-sur-Saône victim of a cyberattack
Le Dauphine reports (translation): After the Villefranche-sur-Saône hospital or even the Dax hospital , it is the turn of the city and the agglomeration of Chalon-sur-Saône to be victims of a cyberattack. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, the computer systems were affected by “a crypto-virus”, told Frédéric Iacovella, director general of the services of the City and…
Amber Group breaks silence on unsecured storage bucket; NatSec minister suggests TechCrunch reporter may have violated CyberCrime Act
The Gleaner reports a follow-up on an unsecured storage server exposing personal information and COVID-related information of travelers to Jamaica. The exposed bucket was first reported by Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch on February 17: The storage server, hosted on Amazon Web Services, was set to public. It’s not known for how long the data was…
India’s cyber defenses breached and reported; govt. yet to fix it
John Xavier reports that India’s government has been slow to respond to a report by ethical hackers that had been shared with the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3): which initiated contact with the India’s National Critical Infrastructure Information Protection Centre (NCIIPC). Following this, the security team shared its 34-page threat report to…
Personal info compromised at 88 firms in Japan in 2020
Let’s see how things are doing elsewhere. JiJi reports: Personal information was compromised or lost at a total of 88 publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries in Japan in 2020, the highest number since such data began being collected in 2012, according to a survey by Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. In total, personal information on…
IT: Guarantor for privacy: two hospitals and one AUSL sanctioned
Marco De Felice reports: The Guarantor for privacy has sanctioned two hospitals and an AUSL, they had communicated medical information to the wrong people. The three structures fined are the Sienese University Hospital , the University Hospital of Parma and the Romagna Local Health Authority . The two hospitals received a fine of €10,000, while for the Romagna AUsl the fine was €50,000. ……