East Kootenay News Online Weekly has a report on a malware incident involving a Canadian school district: School District No. 5 (SD5) Southeast Kootenay encountered a cyber incident on January 23 in which computers at the School Board Office and the Fernie Learning Centre were infected with the Emotet Virus. […] According to Secretary-Treasurer Alan…
Desjardins hit with two class action suits after security breach
The Canadian Press reports: One day after announcing personal information on 2.9 million of its members had been illegally transferred to a third party, Mouvement Desjardins is being targeted by two class action suits. Filed Friday in Superior Court, one of the suits, filed by the law firm of Siskinds Desmeules on behalf of a…
Ex-Senate aide sentenced to 4 years in prison for data leak
Matthew Daly of AP reports: A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Jackson A. Cosko, a former computer systems administrator in the office of Sen. Maggie…
Insurance company AIA fined $10,000 by PDPC for personal data breach
Lester Wong reports from Singapore: Insurance company AIA was fined $10,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) for mistakenly sending 245 letters meant for various customers to just two people due to a programming error in its software system that auto-generates the letters. The bulk of the letters (237) were premium notice letters for…
IT error deletes Creighton pharmacy patient records, including prescription, insurance info
Julie Anderson reports: An IT error resulted in the deletion of patient records Tuesday from the Creighton University Campus Pharmacy at 2412 Cuming St. The lost data includes prescription and refill history and insurance information for all customers. A count of customers wasn’t immediately available, but the pharmacy filled 50,000 prescriptions in 2017. The incident…
Ransomware gang hacks MSPs to deploy ransomware on customer systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the Webroot SecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on the MSPs’ customers systems. The ransomware infections were first reported today in a Reddit section dedicated to MSPs…