Anna McGuinness and Carla Mascarenhas report: NSW Police arrested a man in Fairfield West on May 2 in connection with an alleged data breach that potentially caught out one million club patrons. Police said a 46-year-old man was taken to Fairfield Police Station where he was expected to be charged with blackmail. […] The data…
Category: Non-U.S.
All London Drugs stores closed across Western Canada due to “operational issue”
CTV News reports: All 79 locations of pharmacy and retail chain London Drugs are shut down Sunday, and there is no estimate on when they will be back open. A customer service representative told CTV News “all of our systems are down” and the stores are unable to process any transactions for the time being….
Unsecured Health Genie bucket exposed almost 450,000 files with patient data — Cybernews
It is disgraceful that there are so many huge data leaks involving sensitive personal data, and yet here we are again. Cybernews reports: Health Genie, a healthcare IT solutions provider, left an open instance, exposing patients’ personal details as well as sensitive clinical data. The India-based healthcare solutions provider left an open Amazon S3 bucket,…
Sg: App managing student devices in 127 schools hacked; names and e-mail addresses leaked: MOE
Lok Jian Wen reports: The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. The Mobile Guardian app, which is installed on personal learning devices including Chromebook laptops…
Hong Kong private hospital given 4 weeks to submit report over US$10 million ransomware attack
Cannix Yau reports: Hong Kong health authorities have told a private hospital it has four weeks to submit a detailed report after it was hit by a malicious cyberattack and refused to pay a US$10 million ransom. The Department of Health said on Saturday that it was investigating the incident at Union Hospital in Tai…
NIS2 implementation enters the final stretch – six months to deadline
Mark Young, Paul Maynard, and Aleksander Aleksiev of Covington and Burling write: In six months’ time, on 17 October 2024, Member State laws that transpose the EU’s revised Network and Information Systems Directive (“NIS2”) will start to apply. As described in more detail in our earlier blog post (here), NIS2 significantly expands the categories of…