Collaborate Disseminate
Purvi Khemani reports: A Reddit user recently shared a troubling experience on the platform. They claimed they were fired from TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) after reporting a security issue. Using the handle @Personal_Stage4690, they posted on the ‘D… Continue reading TCS Employee Suspended After Reporting a Security Incident, Reddit Post Goes Viral
United News of India (UNI) reports on a significant cyberattack on April 30 that has been attributed to Daixin Team. In one of the highest volumes of cyberattacks in India, details of 20 lakh patients with the Regional Cancer Center (RCC) here were com… Continue reading Regional Cancer Center cyberattack: Ransom demanded, at least 2 million patients’ data stolen
Connor Jones reports: UK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to “malign” forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel. There is no … Continue reading UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack
Alexander Martin reports: Coradix-Magnescan, a French company that provides medical radiological imaging, has warned patients it is currently dealing with a cyberattack that risks “complicating” their appointments. Based in Perpignan in southern France… Continue reading Patient appointments imperiled by cyberattack on French radiologist
Cristiane Manzueto, Rodrigo Leal, Ana Letícia Allavato, and Diego Semeraro of Mayer Brown write: Resolution No. 15, of April 24, 2024, of the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (“ANPD”), approved the Data Breach Notifying Regulation (the “… Continue reading Brazilian Data Protection Authority approves data breach notifying regulation
Three cheers for the U.K. on this one. Kevin Purdy reports: If you build a gadget that connects to the Internet and sell it in the United Kingdom, you can no longer make the default password “password.” In fact, you’re not supposed t… Continue reading UK makes weak default passwords illegal
Anna McGuinness and Carla Mascarenhas report: NSW Police arrested a man in Fairfield West on May 2 in connection with an alleged data breach that potentially caught out one million club patrons. Police said a 46-year-old man was taken to Fairfield Poli… Continue reading Au: Man arrested as one million club patrons are caught in data breach
CTV News reports: All 79 locations of pharmacy and retail chain London Drugs are shut down Sunday, and there is no estimate on when they will be back open. A customer service representative told CTV News “all of our systems are down” and the stores are… Continue reading All London Drugs stores closed across Western Canada due to “operational issue”
It is disgraceful that there are so many huge data leaks involving sensitive personal data, and yet here we are again. Cybernews reports: Health Genie, a healthcare IT solutions provider, left an open instance, exposing patients’ personal details as w… Continue reading Unsecured Health Genie bucket exposed almost 450,000 files with patient data — Cybernews
Lok Jian Wen reports: The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. T… Continue reading Sg: App managing student devices in 127 schools hacked; names and e-mail addresses leaked: MOE