The Chilean Transparency Council (‘CPLT’) announced, on 1 June 2020, that following an audit of 12,000 purchase orders made by 86 organisations in the health sector, the CPLT found that 12 purchase orders by hospitals and six by health services were made which revealed the sensitive personal data of patients. Read more on OneTrust Data…
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How screwed is Indian healthcare data?
Sai Krishna Kothapalli writes: Some months ago, I read an interesting article on Techcrunch titled “A billion medical images are exposed online” about medical imaging storage servers that are not configured securely and are exposed online. This caught my attention, and I wanted to dig deeper, especially in the Indian context. Read more on Medium. This…
Fitness Depot hit by data breach after ISP fails to ‘activate the antivirus’
Sergiu Gatlan reports that Canadian retailer Fitness Depot has disclosed a breach of their e-commerce platform that affected consumers’ personal and financial information. Gatlan reports: Based on the info in the breach notification letter the company sent to all potentially impacted individuals, the attack has all the signs of a textbook Magecart attack where the threat…
CPA Canada discloses data breach affecting 329,000 individuals
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) today disclosed that a cyberattack against the CPA Canada website allowed unauthorized third parties to access the personal information of over 329,000 members and other stakeholders. CPA Canada is a national organization with more than 217,000 Chartered Professional Accountants as members and one of the largest national accounting bodies in the world….
Agromart’s data up for auction while threat actors read — and publish — their victim’s emails about the attack
According to their website, The Agromart Group in Canada provides crop nutrients, seed, crop protection products, custom application and associated services to agricultural producers across Eastern Canada. Last month, they experienced a ransomware attack by the Sodinokibi/REvil threat actors. That in and of itself would be newsworthy, but then the threat actors decided to try…
Canadian hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ by cyberattacks fuelled by booming black market
CBC News reports: Canada’s health system is under siege from unrelenting cybercriminals trying to access patient information and other data, according to health-care professionals and cybersecurity experts who say hospitals and clinics are unable to cope with the growing threats. The problem has become so big that some are calling for Ottawa to impose national cybersecurity standards on…