Andrew Mendler reports: The Town of Midland’s computer systems were hacked over the long weekend. In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, the town became the victim of a cyber-attack in which the town’s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. [..] In late April, Wasaga Beach had their computer systems hacked and…
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Brazilian credit bureau investigates potential data leak
Rogerio Jelmayer reports: Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista SCPC is investigating a possible leak of millions of items of personal data. A group of hackers called Fatal Error claimed it accessed the database of the company, which has more than 350mn personal data about its customers, according a report by local daily Folha de S….
C&A suffers data leak in Brazil
Angelica Mari reports: The Brazilian operation of international fashion retail clothing chain C&A has confirmed a cyberattack to its gift card platform. Data from customers who purchased gift cards was leaked such as ID numbers and email addresses, in addition to information including the amount loaded into the cards, order number and data of purchase….
ZA: Hackers did not compromise our servers – Department of Labour
My Broadband reports: The Department of Labour has issued a statement confirming there was a recent attempted cyberattack on its website. The attack took place over the weekend, and the department’s IT unit confirmed it was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack – aimed at one of the department’s public-facing servers. Read more on…
Air Canada confirms mobile app data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Air Canada has confirmed a data breach on its mobile app, which the airline said may affect 20,000 people — or 1 percent — of its 1.7 million app users. The company said it had “detected unusual log-in behavior” occurring between August 22-24. According to an email to customers, attackers may have…
Seven Australian universities targeted in global hacking campaign
Samira Sarraf reports: At least seven Australian universities have been attacked by cyber criminals in a global action targeting researchers. The attack was discovered by Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU), which said is similar to previous cyber operations by Cobalt Dickens — a threat group associated with the Iranian Government. Secureworks, which is part of…