Zack Whittaker reports: An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time of medical data and health information broadcast by hospitals and ambulances across U.K. towns and cities. The rig, operated out of a house in North London, was picking up radio waves from over the air and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Confirmed: North Korean malware found on Indian nuclear plant’s network
Catalin CImpanu reports: The network of one of India’s nuclear power plants was infected with malware created by North Korea’s state-sponsored hackers, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) confirmed today. News that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) might have been infected with a dangerous strain of malware first surfaced on Twitter on…
Details for 1.3 million Indian payment cards put up for sale on Joker’s Stash
This site has reported on a number of data leaks and breaches in India. And as regular readers know, I now have a criminal complaint and a civil suit against me and this site in India because 1to1Help.net didn’t like me exposing their embarrassing data leak. There’s also an injunction issued by an Indian court…
Country of Georgia hit by massive cyber-attack
BBC reports: A huge cyber-attack has knocked out more than 2,000 websites – as well as the national TV station – in the country of Georgia. Court websites containing case materials and personal data have also been attacked. In many cases, website home pages were replaced with an image of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, and…
Ireland Issues Data Breach Notification Guidance
The Irish Data Protection Commission has issued guidance on data breach notification under GDPR. Attorneys at Fox Rothschild have prepared a summary that begins: Key takeaways: A personal data breach is a security incident that negatively impacts the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of personal data, with the consequence that the controller is unable to ensure…
Ontario Science Centre data breach exposes 174,000 names, email addresses
David Rider reports: A summertime data breach exposed the names and email addresses of 174,000 Ontario Science Centre members, donors and others including customers for camps and birthday parties, the Star has learned. Campaigner, a company that does email blasts for the provincially owned tourist attraction, informed the science centre on Aug. 16 that “someone…