There’s an update to a hack of Norwich International Airport previously noted on this site. ITV reports that there’s been an arrest in the case, and a 29-year-old man has been charged. His name has not yet been made public. h/t, @arresttracker
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Brighton officer sacked for using police computers to stalk ex-wife and girlfriend
Thanks to the U.K. reader who sent along the link to this story. Frank Le Duc reports: A Brighton police officer has been sacked for using the force’s computer systems to stalk his ex-wife and girlfriend, even telling one of the women where she had been. PC Forrest Knight, who had worked in the Operations…
MY: Personal health data theft scary
From a letter to the editor of by S.M. Mohamed Idris of The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) in Malaysia: [CAP] is distressed by the recent news that a group of hackers had hacked into the systems of both government and private hospitals and stolen the personal health data of tens of thousands of individuals – data…
UK: Cool Components’ email database taken in apparent data breach
Gareth Halfacree reports on a somewhat atypical breach with a poor incident response by Cool Components: Hobbyist electronics specialist Cool Components has been hit with an apparent data breach in which persons unknown have made off with its customer email list – but the company claims its investigation has turned up no evidence of security issues….
Operation Blockbuster Coalition Ties Sony, Other Destructive Attacks to Lazarus Group
Michael Mimoso reports: The nation-state sponsored hacker group allegedly behind the 2014 attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has been linked to similar intrusions against a number of companies in South Korea including the Dark Seoul and Operation Troy attacks. A coalition of security companies called Operation Blockbuster, including Kaspersky Lab, Novetta, AlienVault, Invincea, ThreatConnect, Volexity, Symantec,…
Hackers hold German hospital data hostage
DW reports that the ransomware problem we’ve seen here and in Australia has also hit German hospitals: It probably came down to a swift response that averted major damage in the Lukas Hospital in Germany’s western city of Neuss. One morning, hospital staff noticed the system wasn’t running smoothly anymore. There were error messages popping…