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Data breaches upping ATO fraud ‘red flags’

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Dissent

Asha Barbaschow reports: The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has a “red flag” feature, which serves up a “ping” whenever an individual or business has been suspected of having fraudulent activity conducted against their name or if their account has been compromised. Facing Senate Estimates on Tuesday, ATO client engagement second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn explained that…

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Junior doctor who accessed patient records improperly and failed to engage with regulator is struck off

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Dissent

From an article in BMJ: A junior doctor who improperly accessed the medical records of three hospital patients without a legitimate reason and who then lied about it to a trust investigation has been struck off the UK medical register after failing to engage with the regulatory process. Neha Muralidharan was suspended for 10 months…

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Another Noida sweets manufacturer attacked by ransomware

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Dissent

Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Merely a month after Haldiram Snacks Private Limited corporate office in Noida suffered a ransomware attack, the servers of another Noida-based sweets manufacturing company were hacked and their data was encrypted in a different format that that which the company uses. According to the company, the incident took place on the afternoon…

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Press Trust of India services disrupted by LockBit ransomware attack

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Dissent

Business Line reports: The Press Trust of India’s computer servers suffered a massive ransomware attack, disrupting operations and the delivery of news to hundreds of subscribers across India for several hours, before they were restored after an all-night effort by engineers, a company spokesperson said on Sunday. The attack by the ransomware, which identified itself…

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A nightmare breach involving psychotherapy records just got worse

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Dissent

There’s an update to previous post about a ransom situation in Finland impacting 40,000 psychotherapy patients at Vastaamo. As initially reported by Vastaamo, a psychotherapy practice with multiple offices and locations, they had been hacked and the hacker had acquired records of patients who had registered before the end of November 2018.  Other sources reported…

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Japanese drug firm Shionogi hit by cyberattack and data breach

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Dissent

Kyodo News reports: Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi & Co. said Thursday that its Taiwanese subsidiary was hit by a cyberattack earlier this month leading to a data breach, although no information regarding the novel coronavirus vaccine it is currently developing was leaked. Read more on Japan Times. The attack was announced this week by the…

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