Rambo Talabong reports: A still unidentified hacker has infiltrated the online student portal of San Beda University (SBU), gaining access to personal information and social media passwords of thousands of students and apparently releasing them online. “We discovered an incident where your email address and password, as used in the student portal was accessed by…
UK: Fears patient files at Hockley GP surgery hacked – urgent probe launched
Mike Lockley reports: Thousands of alerts have been sent to patients at a leading GPs’ practice amid fears their medical records have been hacked. Staff at Hockley Medical Practice, based in the Jewellery Quarter, have acted swiftly after being made aware of the possible cyber attack. The surgery has 8,839 patients. A text message has…
ZEE5 allegedly hacked by ‘Korean hackers’, customer info at risk
Ax Sharma reports: A hacker identifying themselves as “John Wick” and “Korean Hackers” claim to have breached the systems for Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 and are threatening to sell the database on criminal markets. ZEE5 is an Indian streaming service with over 150 million subscribers worldwide and is part of the Essel Group conglomerate,…
Chile: CPLT announces breach of sensitive patient data in health industry
The Chilean Transparency Council (‘CPLT’) announced, on 1 June 2020, that following an audit of 12,000 purchase orders made by 86 organisations in the health sector, the CPLT found that 12 purchase orders by hospitals and six by health services were made which revealed the sensitive personal data of patients. Read more on OneTrust Data…
How screwed is Indian healthcare data?
Sai Krishna Kothapalli writes: Some months ago, I read an interesting article on Techcrunch titled “A billion medical images are exposed online” about medical imaging storage servers that are not configured securely and are exposed online. This caught my attention, and I wanted to dig deeper, especially in the Indian context. Read more on Medium. This…
Fitness Depot hit by data breach after ISP fails to ‘activate the antivirus’
Sergiu Gatlan reports that Canadian retailer Fitness Depot has disclosed a breach of their e-commerce platform that affected consumers’ personal and financial information. Gatlan reports: Based on the info in the breach notification letter the company sent to all potentially impacted individuals, the attack has all the signs of a textbook Magecart attack where the threat…