Mirage reports: TissuPath, a specialist pathology firm in Australia, has experienced a data breach due to a cyber security incident. The breach involved a third-party supplier attack, accessing pathology referral records kept in a backup storage drive. Read more at Mirage News. TissuPath has posted a security notice on its website that begins with an…
Category: Non-U.S.
HK: Hacking of Cyberport sparks discussions of law on cyber security
The Standard reports: Authorities are now mulling to introduce a law on cyber security and will strengthen communications with overseas agencies, said I&T minister Sun Dong following a recent hacking on Cyberport’s computer system. Some 400 gigabytes of data, including HKID card numbers, bank statements and resumes, was stolen and released on the dark web…
Outage at Canadian airports was from a DDoS attack
La Press reports (automatic machine translation follows): The widespread breakdown of border terminals in Canadian airports on Sunday, claimed by a group of pro-Russian hackers, was indeed the result of a computer attack. This would thus be a rare case, if not the first, where such an assault has real impacts on the country’s infrastructure, according…
Customers of WeLeakInfo.to will receive a message from the Dutch police
The following is a machine translation of a press release from the Dutch Politie: Hundreds of (possible) buyers of stolen data have received a letter or email from the East Netherlands police, and people are also invited for a stop interview. This approach is a follow-up to an investigation from 2022. In May of that…
Israeli mental health center in Jerusalem hit with cyberattack
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem was hit with a suspected cyberattack, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry’s cyber security department, as well as Israel’s Cyber Authority, are looking into the incident. The Times of Israel also reports a cyberattack, but says the suspected cyberattack…
Cyberattack on a Breton municipality: private data released
The following is a Google translation of a post originally published in French by Europe1 with AVP: The town of Betton (Ille-et-Vilaine), close to Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack by hackers who disseminated personal data due to the municipality’s refusal to pay a “ransom”, according to corroborating sources. The “ransomware” attack was committed…