Reuters reports: The New Zealand government has activated national security systems after the nation’s stock exchange was disrupted by cyber attacks for a fourth day. There was no clarity on who was behind the “offshore” attacks, but the failure to stop them has raised questions about New Zealand’s security systems, experts said. Read more on The Guardian.
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: North Okanagan pediatric clinic hacked
Jennifer Smith reports: Patients of a North Okanagan facility are being alerted of a privacy breach. The North Okanagan Pediatric Clinic was subject to a remote hacking attempt in late May 2020. “While patient medical charts and records, which are maintained in paper form only, were unaffected, historical patient profile information could theoretically have been…
15-year-old Merseyside boy arrested for hacking UK PayPal accounts
TEISS reports: Merseyside Police have arrested, and subsequently released under investigation, a fifteen-year-old boy under the suspicion of hacking into a number of PayPal accounts in the UK earlier this year. Aside from arresting and releasing the fifteen-year-old boy under investigation, Merseyside Police’s Cyber Dependent Crime Unit, along with the Matrix, carried out a search…
Scoot says ‘no data breach’ after Singapore customers not on Guangzhou-bound flight mistakenly get emails about Covid-19 testing
Malay Mail reports: Singapore budget airline Scoot issued a media statement to say that it has mistakenly emailed customers regarding requirements to undertake a Covid-19 test for a flight bound for Guangzhou, China. These included customers who have made no such bookings for the flight. A spokesperson for Scoot, which is a subsidiary of Singapore…
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health notification of privacy breach
August 25 – Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health is informing community members of a recent breach of privacy that affected an information dashboard that was used to display information about influenza cases in our community. This dashboard was posted on our public website between January 2020 and May 2020. The dashboard contained information on individuals with lab…
Primary Indian ticket vendor suffers crippling data breach
Jim Wilson writes: One of India’s most popular travel booking hubs was left exposed without adequate security measures, and subsequently, suffered a significant data breach that exposed all production server information and led to the loss of over 43GB of data. The affected Elastic search server was left publicly exposed without password protection or encryption…