There’s a follow-up to a breach that I had described as one of the worst insider breaches at its time – because it put lives at serious risk and some victims were firebombed or shot at. Mi-Jung Lee and Kendra Mangione recently interviewed one of the victims, who continues to have concerns about the handling…
Category: Non-U.S.
Big Brother Watch calls for stiffer penalties for PNSI breaches
67 officers or staff of the Police Service in Northern Ireland have been investigated for police computer misuse over the last three years, it has been revealed. Suspected data protection breaches involved inappropriate access to PSNI systems. Read more on The Nationalist for more details on the cases.
Witcher 3 dev forums hacked, 1.8 million accounts stolen
Dale Walker reports: Polish game development studio CD Projekt RED has had more than 1.8 million user credentials stolen from its online forum, according to data breach notification website ‘Have I Been Pwned?‘. The studio, which is famous for developing the highly successful Witcher franchise, was breached in March 2016 when hackers targeted its online…
Doctor email breached patient privacy: Eastern Health says 122 patients involved
CBC News reports: Eastern Health and Memorial University’s Faculty of Medicine are advising of a privacy breach Monday after a doctor emailed researchers “tuberculosis-related health information” involving 122 patients. According to the health authority, the physician — who was not named — shared the information with other researchers as a part of a grant application for…
How Russian Hackers Became a Kremlin Headache
Leonid Bershidsky reports: The recent arrests of Russian cybersecurity officials in Moscow likely had little to do with last year’s U.S. election. The story behind them, however, sheds some light on the relationship between the Russian government and the hackers who work for it. The web of names and their interconnections can be a little hard to…
Russian hackers behind attempted Polish foreign ministry hack: report
Radio Poland reports: A hacking attempt in December on the computer servers of the Polish Foreign Ministry was likely the work of Russian hackers, according to the Rzeczpospolita daily. The alleged hackers were part of the APT28 group, also known as the Fancy Bear cyber espionage group, which experts identify as being associated with the…