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Hackers launched a cyberattack on an Irish water utility, causing disruption and leaving people without water for two days.
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By Waqas
This marks the fourth data security incident to affect a UK police department in 2023.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Contractor Database Leak Exposes 500K Irish Police Vehicle Seizure Records
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Over the years we’ve reported on the passing of a few of the broadcasting technologies of yesteryear, such as analogue TV in America, or AM radio in Europe. Now it’s …read more Continue reading Teletext in Ireland, Another Broadcasting Leftover Bites The Dust
Northern Ireland’s top police officer apologized for what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach in which the personal information of more than 10,000 officers and staff was released to the public.
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By Habiba Rashid
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) experienced a severe security breach, unintentionally revealing personal details of its entire workforce, including officers and civilian staff.
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Staff at Dublin Airport have been warned that their personal data has fallen into the hands of hackers, following a data breach at a third-party service provider.
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By Habiba Rashid
The incident led to the publication of data on Irish police, sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists, and others, leading to a spike in scam calls and texts in Ireland.
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An Irish court has jailed three romance scammers who tricked a 66-year-old woman out of her life savings, and even tricked her into visiting Dubai at her own expense.
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A detailed report of the 2021 ransomware attack against Ireland’s Health Services Executive lists some really bad security practices:
The report notes that:
- The HSE did not have a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or a “single responsible owner for cybersecurity at either senior executive or management level to provide leadership and direction.
- It had no documented cyber incident response runbooks or IT recovery plans (apart from documented AD recovery plans) for recovering from a wide-scale ransomware event.
- Under-resourced Information Security Managers were not performing their business as usual role (including a NIST-based cybersecurity review of systems) but were working on evaluating security controls for the COVID-19 vaccination system. Antivirus software triggered numerous alerts after detecting Cobalt Strike activity but these were not escalated. (The antivirus server was later encrypted in the attack).
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The accounting firm PricewatersCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware. It also found affected hospitals had tens of thousand of outdated Windows 7 systems, and that the health system’s IT administrators failed to respond to multiple warning signs that a massive attack was imminent. Continue reading Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare