From YorkMix: Hackers have obtained personal data belonging to users of York council’s environmental app, it has emerged this weekend. City of York Council has contacted police and has permanently taken down its One Planet York app, following the data breach. The app supported the council’s broader One Planet York programme, which seeks to reduce…
IE: Tullamore hospital hit by ransomware attack
The Irish Examiner reports: Dublin Midlands Hospital Group has confirmed an isolated ransomware attack at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore yesterday. There was no impact on patient care following the attack, which affected the Laboratory Information System. There is also no evidence of other parts of the wider health service being affected by the…
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New York Oncology Hematology notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after phishing attack
Albany-based New York Oncology Hematology is notifying more than 128,400 employees and patients after discovering that 14 employees fell prey to phishing attacks in April. Although forensic invesgtigation did not find any clear evidence that attackers accessed employee or patient data in the employees’ email accounts, NYOH decided to notify everyone. As part of their web…
Russian APT comes back to life with new US spear-phishing campaign
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group has come back to life after a one-year period of inactivity with a relative large spear-phishing campaign that has targeted both the US government and private sector. The hacking group is known in infosec circles as Cozy Bear, APT29, The Dukes, or PowerDuke, and is infamous because…
UK: Hackers, 21 and 23, admit breaking into TalkTalk’s website in a huge data breach that cost the telecoms firm £77m in lost business
Darren Boyle reports: Two computer geeks hacked the website of telecoms giant TalkTalk in a massive data breach costing the company £77m in lost business, a court heard. Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, were behind the plot to steal thousands of customers’ personal and banking details in October 2015. TalkTalk was fined a…