Rob Antle reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority has notified 37,800 people that their privacy was breached as part of last fall’s devastating cyberattack. That number equates to about one in every 13 people in the province. And according to Eastern Health, it could go even higher. Those affected include patients, along with current…
Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations
Zack Whittaker reports: Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them. Cybersecurity startup BitSight said…
Zuckerberg to Testify Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
Corinne Reichert reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify in a lawsuit over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach. Current COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is leaving Meta in the fall, has also been asked to provide testimony, as reported earlier Wednesday by Gizmodo. Zuckerberg will be deposed for up to 6 hours and Sandberg for 5 hours in September,…
Ca: Waterloo Region District School Board hit by cyberattack
Kate Bueckert reports: The Waterloo Region District School Board says it’s working to restore its IT system and safeguard personal information of staff, students and families after it was the target of a cyberattack. “We intend to do whatever is within our ability to resolve this issue,” said a statement from the board’s communications officer, Estefania…
Methodist Hospitals data breach $425K class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from a 2019 phishing incident that reportedly impacted or potentially impacted 68,039 patients: The Methodist Hospitals Inc. has agreed to pay up to $425,00 to settle a class action lawsuit that alleges it failed to adequately protect patients’ personal information from being exposed in a…
CERT-MX suffers credibility #FAIL, accuses DataBreaches.net of disclosing unauthorized info.
Is Mexico’s CERT / Guardia Nacional suffering from heat exhaustion, bad AI, or political pressure? How else can we explain their bizarre attempt to take down this site? Long-time readers of this site know that over the past 16 years or so that I have been blogging, I have been the recipient of all kinds…