Margi Murphy Ben Riley-Smith report: The European Commission has claimed it is not subject to the strict new data protection law that it has imposed across Europe, following an “embarrassing” leak of personal data on its website. Officials in Brussels admitted the bureaucracy that designed the rules is not itself compliant with the General Data Protection…
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Hackers threaten to reveal personal data of 90,000 Canadians caught in bank hack
Pete Evans reports: Hackers have threatened to release personal information for nearly 100,000 customers of two Canadian banks unless the lenders pay a $1-million ransom for its safe return. On Monday, Bank of Montreal and online bank Simplii Financial — owned by CIBC — revealed that they learned over the weekend that the identifying personal information of a combined 90,000 different…
Privacy Commissioner says Avenue Living privacy breach poses a risk
Leah Murray reports that an insider breach at a property management firm resulted in dozens of tenants being notified that their information may have been stolen. The unauthorized access is believed to have occurred sometime between August 2016 and November 2016: A company that operates apartment buildings in several Alberta communities, including Lethbridge, Medicine Hat…
BMO and CIBC-owned Simplii Financial reveal hacks of customer data
Pete Evans reports: Two Canadian banks warned customers Monday that they have been the targets of hackers, and the personal information of tens of thousands of customers may have been stolen. CIBC-owned Simplii Financial was the first to warn on Monday morning that hackers had accessed the personal and account information of more than 40,000 of the bank’s…
ZW: Harare Institute of Technology Hacked Again? More Than 3,500 Student Account Credentials Leaked
Farai Mudzingwa reports: Last year in June, the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) was hacked and the individual behind the hack demanded US$999 in order to return the files. This hacker also claimed to have secured some – in fact ALL- HIT databases and now there appears to be a new database that contains students…
Ca: Town of Wasaga Beach recovering from ransomware attack, negotiating with hackers
Ken Hashizume reports: The Town of Wasaga Beach is slowly but surely recovering from a recent cyber attack. Staff discovered ransomware was installed on the Town’s computer system in April affecting the website and municipal services. The Town was working with OPP in negotiating with the hackers. They say they have since been able to…