Edith Lin reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority on Saturday apologised to affected victims – patients of hospitals in Kowloon East – for the breach that compromised…
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that attackers recently breached servers outside its corporate network, which contained what it described as “unclassified” information on collaborative engineering activities. Founded 50 years ago and headquartered in Paris, ESA is an intergovernmental organization that coordinates the space activities of 23 member states. ESA has around……
Nicole Wagner reports: Access to Southold’s online record-keeping system Laserfiche remains suspended with no timeline for restoration, more than six weeks after a cyberattack forced the town offline. Southold is currently completing $500,000 security upgrades, funded through a Town Board-approved bond, before restoring public access to the system after hackers breached servers on Nov. 24. Supervisor Al Krupski and the……
Suzanne Smalley reports: More than 70 civil liberties advocacy groups, academics and legal experts are calling for an investigation into a “collapse in enforcement activity” by the United Kingdom’s principal data protection regulator. The group’s letter to Chi Onwurah, who chairs Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, contends that the Information Commissioner’s Office is plagued by deep……
WTXL reports: Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare is releasing more information regarding a cybersecurity event that happened this past January. A spokesperson told WTXL ABC 27 they were recently notified that a previous vendor TMH used had experienced a cybersecurity event involving unauthorized access to data, including certain patient information. TMH says its current electronic health record…
As previously reported, Nova Scotia Power confirmed that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack in March but had not paid the ransom demands. They declined to publicly name the threat group or individual responsible. Their most recent incident update of June 25 provides some additional information for customers. On July 3, Nova…
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