Lawrence Abrams reports: A leading accounting firm in Canada forced a company-wide shutdown of their systems after getting hit with a cyberattack last weekend, BleepingComputer has learned. Canadian accounting firm MNP’s systems were impacted last weekend in what BleepingComputer was told was a ransomware attack. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Hackers may have accessed personal information of Aurora Medical Center Bay Area patients
Jake Prinsen reports: Hackers may have stolen personal information from patients at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area. Someone used an email phishing scam around January 1 to gain access to email accounts of several of the Marinette hospital’s employees, according to Advocate Health Aurora. Read more on Green Bay Press Gazette.
Ransomware attack temporarily knocks out Olean city systems
Bob Clark reports: Another virus has crippled city operations — this one of the digital kind. On Friday morning, city officials announced that the management information department detected and stopped a computer virus attack on the city’s computers before the opening of business. “All I can tell you is it was ransomware discovered early in…
Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home
Joseph Menn reports: Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. […] Software and security company VMWare Carbon Black said this week that ransomware attacks it monitored jumped 148% in…
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
ICO Confirms Second Deferral For BA And Marriott’s GDPR Fines
Melanie Mingas reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a public body sponsored by the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has again deferred the payment of multi-million-dollar fines levied on Marriott International and British Airways after both firms had customer information stolen by hackers. The fines, issued two days apart in July…