Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles reports: One of the province’s most well-known home care service providers has fallen victim of a cyber-attack. The attack has breached CarePartners‘ computer system and as a result patient and employee information held in that system, including personal health and financial information, has been inappropriately accessed, according to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Network….
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Impatient former Hong Kong library worker arrested after stealing customers’ personal data to borrow books faster
I know, I know. It’s a crime and it’s very very wrong, but I’d be curious to meet this woman and ask her about what appears to be her voracious reading habits. Danny Mok of the South China Morning Post recently reported: A bibliophile who worked in a Hong Kong public library has been arrested for using…
Andhra Pradesh Tracked You As You Bought Viagra, Then Put Your Name and Phone Number on the Internet for the World to See
Gopal Sathe reports: Bengaluru — If you are the gentleman who bought Suhagra 50, a generic version of Viagra, and some Vomiford anti-nausea drops, on June 13 from a government-run Anna Sanjivini store in Anantpur in Rayalseema, your name, phone number and purchases, were listed on an Andhra Pradesh government website — until HuffPost alerted…
Authorities shut down Dark Web marketplace “Black Hand”
Carolina reports: In a joint operation, French police, the National Directorate of Intelligence and Customs Investigations (DNRED) have shut down one of the largest illegal dark web marketplaces “Black Hand” known for selling drugs, weapons, databases, stolen banking data and fake documents. According to a statement from the Minister of Public Action and Accounts, Mr. Gérald Darmanin on…
Hackers want millions from Liberty Life, or will start releasing sensitive data – Report
MyBroadband reports that hackers are attempting to extort Liberty Life: Financial services provider Liberty stated late on Saturday night that it had been hit by an IT systems breach. The company posted a notice to its website which said it had suffered “unauthorised access to its IT infrastructure”. […] According to a report in the Sunday Times…
Details of 15,000 Orange users hacked
Alan Hope reports: Telecommunications company Orange has admitted that a “data leak” exposed the personal information of some 15,000 customers in Belgium to possible hackers. The leak took place two weeks ago, but was only this week revealed to the clients affected. Orange did not reveal exactly what details had been leaked, but the possibilities…