Connor Jones reports: Emotional intelligence was at the heart of the British Library’s widely hailed response to its October ransomware attack, according to CEO Roly Keating. The British Library’s (BL) ransomware attack last year was one of the most damaging in recent memory, at least in the UK. The transparency of the organization’s response over…
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Au: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure victim of ‘large-scale’ data breach, ‘personal and health information’ at risk
Daniel Jeffrey reports: Electronic prescription provider MediSecure has fallen victim to a “large scale” data breach, potentially putting Australians’ private medical information at risk and sparking a national approach from the federal government. The company released a statement on its website – which is now otherwise inactive – this afternoon confirming the breach involved “personal and…
Singapore Cybersecurity Update Puts Cloud Providers on Notice
Robert Lemos writes: Lawmakers in Singapore updated the nation’s cybersecurity regulations on May 7, giving more power to the agency responsible for enforcing the rules, adopting definitions of computer systems that include cloud infrastructure, and requiring that critical information infrastructure (CII) operators report any cybersecurity incident to the government. The Cyber Security Act amendment takes…
Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia. The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive brokers
Seen at GPDP: Telemarketing: the Privacy Guarantor sanctions Enel Energia The company had not protected its databases from access by abusive touts The Privacy Guarantor has imposed a fine of over 79 million euros on Enel Energia for serious shortcomings in the processing of personal data of numerous users in the electricity and gas sector, carried out…
Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people
Bill Toulas reports: Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news…
Au: Shock for customers as personal details leaked in worrying breach
Zak Wheeler reports: Hackers have cracked a popular mortgage lender’s servers and gained access to the personal information of its clients. Firstmac, an Australian non-bank mortgage lender, sent out a round of emails to customers this week alerting them to the fact that their data may have been breached. Information accessed by hackers included bank accounts, passport…