Ryan Gallagher reports: Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part of a broad effort to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, as the hackers call themselves, have in recent weeks released portions of a huge data trove…
Au: Latest OAIC data breach report: a reduction in notifications but persistent concerns about cyber security incidents
Kate Marshall, Veronica Scott, and Jason Kaye of KPMG Law write: The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) now releases bi-annual reports on data breaches that are reported under the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act). Its latest report for the period of January 2021 to June 2021 show…
Internal emails raise questions about government’s investigation into Walgreens privacy breach
I am so glad to see a follow-up on this case because I had the same questions about how and why Walgreens did not suffer the same federal penalties as CVS and Rite Aid for the same infringement of HIPAA. My original coverage of this breach is no longer online as the former version of…
AZ: 200 Kingman residents affected by city’s cyber attack; cause still not determined
AP reports: A recent investigation into a massive cyberattack against the city of Kingman shows that up to 200 residents had their personal information breached, yet the city still can’t explain how their system was infiltrated. Kingman city officials said the completed investigation revealed that a “limited number” of residents’ information were affected by the…
A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections, says Citizen Lab
Zack Whittaker reports: A Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new security protections that Apple designed to withstand covert compromises, say researchers at Citizen Lab. The activist, who remains in Bahrain and asked not to be named, is a member of the Bahrain Center for…
Update on Eskenazi Health Cyber Incident
Eskenazi has issued an updated notice about their security incident. They talk about “if they find” PII or PHI, but the reality is that this site already saw and reported that there was such information in the data dumped by Vice Society. From this site’s perspective, the only question is how many employees and patients…