Kat Hall reports: North Dorset District Council is working with police to identify the source of a ransomware attack this week, the latest incident in what security experts believe to be a growing problem for local authorities. According to an email seen by The Register, the attack had infected 6,000 files on the council’s servers by…
Category: Non-U.S.
NL: Records of 781 cancer patients stolen from hospital car park
Negligence and laziness are not uniquely American phenomena. In this case, the researcher was violating policy, with all-too-predictable results: A hard drive containing the medical records of 781 cancer patients has been stolen from a researcher at Amsterdam’s Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital. The drive, which was not secured with a password, was taken from the boot…
UK: Morrisons denies liability as data leak case nears court for more than 100 Peterborough employees
The Peterborough Telegraph reports: Lawyers acting on behalf of several thousand Morrisons’ employees, including more than 100 from Peterborough, say they will “vigorously contest” the retailer’s assertion that it wasn’t to blame for a data leak which led to their personal details being posted on the internet. Bank, salary and National Insurance details of almost…
Operation Wrath takes aim at Russia (updated)
Seen on haveibeenpwned.com: 1,476,783 accounts dumped: In February 2016, the Russian portal and email service KM.RU was the target of an attack which was consequently detailed on Reddit. Allegedly protesting “the foreign policy of Russia in regards to Ukraine”, KM.RU was one of several Russian sites in the breach and impacted almost 1.5M accounts including sensitive personal information….
MTISC-GOG investigation finds no evidence of breach
There’s a follow-up to a post concerning a possible data breach involving Maritime Trade Information Sharing Centre, Gulf of Guinea (MTISC-GOG). A statement from BIMCO had suggested that there had been a breach that could put ships at greater risk of attacks by pirates. DataBreaches received the following statement from LT(GN) Felix Tsekpetse, Officer in…
PH: Police arrest 27 sextortionists
Francis Wakefield reports: The Philippine National Police-Anti-Cybercrime Group arrested 27 persons allegedly involved in sextortion activities in an operation in Cabanatuan City Tuesday. Senior Supt Guilermo Lorenzo Eleazar, PNP-ACG director, said that the suspects were arrested inside the office of TLS Synergy Group, an online marketing firm in Cabanatuan City. Read more on Tempo.