This week, the Polish Central Cybercrime Bureau (Centralne Biuro Zwalczania Cyberprzestępczości) under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice (Prokuratura Regionalna w Katowicach) took action against LolekHosted.net, a bulletproof hosting service used by criminals to launch cyber-attacks across the world. Five of its administrators were arrested, and all of its servers seized, rendering…
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Cumbria Police admits huge data breach as names and salaries of staff published online
Jon Macpherson reports: Another police force has admitted a data breach after the names and salaries of all its staff were accidentally published online. Cumbria Police said that on March 6 it found out information about pay and allowances had been uploaded on its website following a “human error”. The force’s admission comes after an…
Nearly 1.5 million affected by data breach at Alberta Dental Service Corporation
CBC reports: A significant data breach has compromised the personal information of about 1.47 million Albertans, the Alberta Dental Service Corporation said Thursday. In a statement, ADSC said certain data from public dental benefits programs it administers for the provincial government was implicated in a recent cybersecurity breach. ADSC learned it was the victim of…
Nova Scotia government still unsure of widespread impact from spring cyberattack
Jonathan MacInnis reports: The province of Nova Scotia is still unsure of how widespread the MOVEit security breach is, nearly two-and-a-half months after first becoming aware of the issue. Almost 1000 notifications have been sent out this month. “As you start getting into forensics you can find out that that trail can lead back a…
Russia ‘prime suspect’ in cyber attack which saw names and addresses of 40M UK voters exposed – reports
Imogen Howse reports: Russia is suspected to have been behind a cyber attack which exposed the data of tens of millions of voters in the UK, raising fears it was an attempt to undermine democracy. The Electoral Commission admitted on Tuesday (8 August) that hackers had been able to access reference copies of electoral registers from between the years…
Outrage at massive police data breach that saw the personal details of more than 10,000 PSNI officers and staff accidentally published online
Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal data from employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), but does not involve the officers’ and civilians’ private addresses, it is…