Rorisang Kgosana reports: The department of justice & constitutional development contravened the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, resulting in the loss of more than 1,200 files. The Information Regulator issued an enforcement notice to the department this week for a September 2021 security breach on its IT systems. […] The security breach was caused…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ontario school district hit by cyber attack discovers additional info stolen
Lynn Greiner reports: The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board has sent letters to students and former students informing them their personal information was compromised in a cyber attack that was first announced on Dec. 15, 2022. The attack initially took down the board’s website, as well as telephones, public address systems, and email for all…
WhizComms data breach: 50% of customers affected, notified on May 10
Aqil Hamzah reports: About 24,000 customers of broadband service provider WhizComms, or roughly half the company’s customer base, had their personal information stolen by an external party in a data breach incident detected on April 21. The affected people received e-mail on Wednesday informing them that a third party had accessed the firm’s Web server and downloaded…
North Korea behind SNUH hacking in 2021: police
Lee Han-Soo reports: The personal information leak at Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) two years ago was found to be the work of North Korean hackers. The National Police Agency’s National Office of Investigation has confirmed that a cyber attack orchestrated by North Korean hackers infiltrated the internal network of SNUH through seven domestic and…
HK: Personal data, medical history of 100,000 OT&P Healthcare patients may have been compromised in cyberattack
Lars Hamer reports: The personal data and medical history of about 100,000 patients of a Hong Kong healthcare group could have been leaked because of a cyberattack last Thursday, the operator confirmed with the Post. OT&P Healthcare CEO Robin Green on Monday said the cyberattack took place within the clinic’s management and operating system. “That…
NL: Suspect arrested after data theft and threat
Dutch police have made another arrest involving an alleged hacker. It sounds like they identified and arrested this individual fairly quickly, which raises questions about whether this suspect had terrible OpSec or if the police had other sources of leads that enabled them to identify and arrest them. There is nothing in their release that…