CNA reports: SINGAPORE: Some Love, Bonito customers may have had their personal data leaked after a “malicious code” was found on the retailer’s e-commerce website. In an e-mail sent out to customers on Friday (Dec 13) and seen by CNA, the retailer said the code was added to its website on Tuesday. Read more on Channel…
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15 Million Debit Cards Exposed as Iranian Banks Fall Victim to Cyber Warfare
Avi Mizrahi reports: The private details of 15 million bank debit cards in Iran have been published on Telegram in the largest banking security incident in the country’s history. Iranian authorities so far try to blame the breach on common criminals but cyber security experts suspect it was the work of intelligence agencies from the…
On the notification warpath, Friday edition
In 2006, I started advocating that there needs to be a law or regulation that requires businesses to have a method to receive notifications of security alerts. A number of people I respect offered explanations as to why that wasn’t a great idea. But 13 years later, I’m more convinced than ever that we need…
UK: 700,000 Hospital Letters Go Missing Since 2011
Spring Hill Insider reports: Thousands of patients may have suffered delays to treatment after it was revealed that the NHS failed to deliver more than half a million sensitive documents to GPs. Test results from biopsies and patient treatment plans were among the thousands of official records that went missing between 2011 and 2016. Read…
City of Hamilton warns data breach may compromise residents’ personal information
Don Mitchell reports: The City of Hamilton is alerting residents of a “potential privacy breach” in which water-related billing data may have been accessed by third-party vendors. In a release on Wednesday afternoon, the city said it’s water-related services, including meter reading, billing, payment, collections, and customer care services which are managed by Alectra Utilities,…
Iran claims foiled massive state-sponsored cyber-attack
i24News reports: Iran has foiled a massive cyber-attack on its “electronic infrastructure”, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on Wednesday. Going into little detail on what exactly was targeted, he said that the exact scale of the attack was yet being established. Read more on i24News. This is all so highly politicized…