The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Capcom Co., an Osaka-based major game software maker, announced Monday that up to 350,000 pieces of information, including those of its customers, might have been compromised by cyber-attacks. The company said the potentially stolen data includes its customers’ personal details, such as names, telephone numbers and email addresses. The company also…
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Umanis hit by NetWalker ransomware?
Valery Marchive reports (translation follows): Umanis declared, this Monday morning November 16, to have been the subject, “like many other companies, of a cyberattack on November 14″. In its press release, also repeated on social networks, the ESN ensures that “the spread of the virus was immediately stopped, thanks to isolation measures. The computer network and applications were disconnected…
City of Saint John hit by ‘significant’ cyber attack
CBC reports that one of my favorite Canadian locales has been hit by a cyberattack. There’s been a “significant” cyber attack against the City of Saint John, according to a news release from the municipality on Sunday evening. The city’s 911 communication system is working, but other services such as online payments systems, email and…
Seine-Saint-Denis. Cyberattack at Bondy town hall: a complaint has been filed
Maëlys Dolbois reports: Since Thursday, November 12, 2020, the City of Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis ) has been fully mobilized against a cyberattack affecting municipal services. “Our services are undergoing a massive cyber attack which renders a large part of the city’s IT equipment inoperative. In particular, e-mail boxes are affected, ”said the City. Read more on Actu. h/t, @Chum1ng0
How hackers collected sensitive data from the Land Transportation Office
Earlier this week, I noted a probe of a data leak involving the Land Transportation Office in Manila. There’s more reported today. Art Samaniego reports: The country’s transportation agency is now on a hot seat as thousands of personal information of drivers and vehicle owners were processed and saved by a website pretending to be…
400 patient records lost after cabinet at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital mistakenly removed by contractor
Zoe Low reports: A filing cabinet containing more than 400 patient records was suspected to have been mistakenly disposed of by a contractor at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital last Friday. The locked four-drawer steel cabinet was used to store the service records of 442 elderly patients who had received “integrated care and discharge support”…