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…
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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…
38 Japan firms’ authentication data stolen amid surge in teleworkers
Kyodo News reports: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. and 36 other Japanese companies had authentication information to access their virtual private networks stolen and leaked by hackers this summer, an information security expert said Tuesday. VPN usage has increased as companies encourage employees to work from home due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
Ca: Brookfield Residential confirms ransomware attack
As DataBreaches.net reported earlier today, although DarkSide ransomware operators claimed to have attacked Brookfield Asset Management, they appear to have attacked Brookfield Residential, a North American land developer and residential home builder. Brookfield Residential is an independently operating portfolio company that runs on an isolated network and domain from all other Brookfield entities, including Brookfield…
More Canadian entities hit with ransomware
Updated August 24: The #DarkSide’s victim is Brookfield Residential. Brookfield Residential describes themselves as a North American land developer and new home builder, and the “flagship North American residential property company of Brookfield Asset Management.” On their leak site, the threat actors had linked to Brookfield.com, which is Brookfield Asset Management, but the documents dumped…