Meagan DeLaurier reports: An update on service interruptions at local hospitals. On Monday, it was reported that Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of Windsor-Essex and the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance were experiencing service interruptions, such as email service being down. An update provided on Monday evening by the hospitals affected states…
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Ie: “Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach”
What is one headline writer’s “major IT breach” may be a blogger’s “data leak.” Adrian Weckler reports: The driving licences of thousands of motorists who had vehicles towed on behalf of the gardaí were left at the mercy of hackers in a major data breach, the Irish Independent can reveal. More than half a million documents exposed…
The digital battlefront amid Israel-Hamas war includes hospitals
i24News reports a surge in anti-Israel cyberattacks, including targeting critical entities such as hospitals: Notably, around 40 to 50 different groups have claimed responsibility for approximately 400 cyber attacks against Israeli targets. The cyber conflict has also drawn in ‘hacktivists’ from countries such as Iran and Russia. Messing notes, that in the past few days…
France frees the two biggest Spanish hackers
The following is from a machine translation of an article by Luis F. Duran that appeared at El Mundo on October 18: Last Thursday, French Justice released two Spanish hackers, aged 26 and 28, arrested last summer on charges of attacking 26 French companies from which they supposedly demanded million-dollar ransoms. After the investigation and the…
Police employee arrested for computer trespassing and violation of official secrecy
Politie reports an alleged insider breach in the police department itself: An employee of the Amsterdam police unit was arrested this week on suspicion of computer trespassing and violation of official secrecy. The investigation into the employee is conducted by the Safety, Integrity and Complaints department (VIK) of the Amsterdam unit under the direction of…
Equifax’s U.K. Arm Fined Over 2017 Data Breach
Margot Patrick reports: Equifax’s (EFX) U.K. arm was fined around $13.6 million Friday for failing to protect the data of millions of British customers in a 2017 hack of the credit-reporting company. The British arm outsourced customer-data processing to the U.S., and then failed to manage or monitor data security, the Financial Conduct Authority said. Read…