A cyber criminal has today been jailed for nine months for committing offences against the National Lottery, after a National Crime Agency investigation. Anwar Batson, 29, of Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, London, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court after admitting four offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and one fraud charge. In November 2016…
Albany Airport pays hackers ransom, regains data from computers
John Cropley provides an update to earlier reports concerning the ransomware attack Christmas day on Albany International Airport. As previously reported, the attackers gained access through an attack on the airport’s provider, LogicalNet. The airport has since severed its relationship with LogicalNet. As to the ransom, Cropley repors: Myers said the airport authority paid the…
MAZE Relaunches “Name and Shame” Website, Continues Dumping Data from Reluctant Victims
Sarah Coble reports: A threat group has once again taken to the internet to publish data stolen from alleged victims who refuse to cooperate with its ransom demands. In December 2019, the MAZE ransomware group published online a portion of the 120 GB of data they claimed to have stolen from Southwire, North America’s most prominent wire…
SG: Public healthcare cluster NHG fined $6,000 for not securing personal data
Hariz Baharudin reports: Public healthcare cluster National Healthcare Group (NHG) has been fined $6,000 for failing to secure personal data – a year after another healthcare cluster, SingHealth, received a record fine after a breach in its database. Five other companies, including Safra and Creative Technology, have also been sanctioned over the past two months by…
More details revealed on 2018 Moose jaw police privacy breach
CKOM reports: In the fall of 2018, the Moose Jaw Police Service fired two workers “inappropriately accessing police information records”, and now more details have been released on what happened in a report from the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. In the report from the commissioner released on Tuesday, it described the privacy breaches as “snooping”. Read…
Amazon fires employees for leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers
Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon has fired a number of employees after they shared customer email address and phone numbers with a third-party “in violation of our policies.” The email to customers sent Friday afternoon, seen by TechCrunch, said an employee was “terminated” for sharing the data, and that the company is supporting law enforcement in their prosecution. Read…