Update: The Independent is reporting that there’s been a £1 million ransom demand attached to this incident. Five days later, the council’s database is still down, it seems. Alexander J. Martin reports: A 0-day security breach at Lincolnshire County Council has exposed locals’ medical records, addresses, and bank details, claimed an anonymous tipster, though the council denies…
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Winnipeg patient health information stolen from nurse’s vehicle
CBC News reports: A bag that contained personal health information of Winnipeg patients was stolen from an on-duty nurse’s parked vehicle on Jan. 14, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said Tuesday. The nurse was working for the WRHA’s Community Intravenous Program. Data stolen from the vehicle included personal health information of as many as 67 patients, the WRHA said…
UK: Brentwood c2c rail users have personal information shared with over 500 people after mistake
Simon Murfitt1 reports: Brentwood c2c rail users have had their personal email addresses shared with over 500 other rail users. c2c, which operates the line from Shoeburyness to London Fenchurch Street, via Basildon and West Horndon, sent an email last week to 543 customers regarding participation in its automatic delay repay pilot scheme. But the member of staff who…
Single group of hackers targets Uyghur, Tibetan activists
Jeremy Kirk reports: A years-long campaign of seemingly disparate cyberattacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists likely comes from a single group of hackers, according to a seven-month studyby Palo Alto Networks. The computer security company also concluded that the information stolen by the group, nicknamed Scarlet Mimic, would be of little interest to entities other than…
AE: Hacker embezzles almost Dhs8.4m
Ahmed Ghannam reports: The Criminal Court in Dubai looked into a case where an employee of a company was charged with accessing the system of the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and manipulating the fees imposed when issuing trade licences. He was also charged with forging government documents belonging to the DED through…
Bank Yerushalayim: Customer Money Safe, Despite Hack
Dror Halavi reports: Hackers broke into the servers of Bank Yerushalayim over the weekend, entering a customer database, where they accessed data on thousands of customers. The bank took the database offline after the breach was discovered, it reported in a notice sent to customers on Motzoei Shabbos. The bank said that the database included…