Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…
Category: Non-U.S.
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
Channel News Asia reports: JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters’ private information on a hacker website along with a threat to release of the data of about 200 million people, the agency said on Friday (May 22). The electoral data from the world’s fourth most-populous nation was posted anonymously…
(UPDATED) Cyber attack on the San Raffaele hospital in Milan
Marco A. De Felice (@amvinfe on Twitter) reports: In the midst of the COVID19 emergency, the San Raffaele hospital in Milan was the victim of a computer attack. Steal the personal data of patients, doctors, nurses and employees. Names, tax codes, email accounts and passwords stolen during a cyber attack that took place between March and April. Anonymous…
Ontario: North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit Announces Privacy Breach
The following is their notice: NORTH BAY, ON – The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit (“Health Unit”) announced today that there was a privacy breach in relation to its online COVID-19 dashboard. The dashboard contained information related to the number of COVID-19 tests and confirmed cases in the local community. Inadvertently, personal identifying…
Data Leak Suggests China Had Hundreds of Thousands of Coronavirus Cases in 230 Cities
Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients
Andrey Shevchenko reports: Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the company’s client data was breached through a SIM card swap attack performed on one of its employees. Read more on CoinTelegraph.