Hospitality Ireland reports; Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten experienced a cyber attack on Monday December 14, which caused several key systems are to go down, the company said in a statement. No “Material Financial Effect” Expected The company, which operates ferries along the Norwegian coast as well as cruises in the Arctic and Antarctic in normal times, said that…
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Investigation into Desjardins’ compliance with PIPEDA following a breach of personal information between 2017 and 2019
From the moment it was disclosed, it seemed clear that the Desjardins breach of 2019 that involved a rogue employee was going to cause big trouble for Desjardins. And sure enough, in one day, they were hit with two potential class action lawsuits. Desjardins subsequently announced they were expanding the mitigation services being offered, but…
Chinese hackers suspected of attacking government agencies in Mongolia
From SecurityLab.ru: A Chinese cybercriminal APT group is suspected of hacking into the network of a Mongolian software company and hacking into a chat application used by hundreds of Mongolian government agencies. According to experts from ESET, the attack took place in June this year. Hackers attacked an application called Able Desktop, developed by local company Able Software. The…
Intel’s Habana Labs hacked by Pay2Key ransomware, data stolen
Lawrence Abrams reports: Intel-owned AI processor developer Habana Labs has suffered a cyberattack where data was stolen and leaked by threat actors. Habana Labs is an Israeli developer of AI processors that accelerate artificial intelligence workloads in the datacenter. Intel purchased the company in December 2019 for approximately $2 billion. Today, the Pay2Key ransomware operation leaked…
Major leak ‘exposes’ members and ‘lifts the lid’ on the Chinese Communist Party
Sky News reports: A major leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has occurred – exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri Markson. Ms Markson said the leak is a register…
Chinese embassy blames hackers for retweet of Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated in election
Arjun Kharpal reports: The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the election. Read more on CNBC, although the remainder of the report seems to be more about Trump and the election and less about the embassy’s Twitter…