Joseph Mackinnon reports: In an abrupt and hushed post-election reversal on Wednesday, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office (DAO) dropped all charges against Eugene Yu, citing “potential bias” in the investigation. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge granted the dismissal per the DAO’s request. Yu, a 64-year-old Chinese national, is the CEO of the...
Anna Zhadan reports: The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School in the Tupsley district of Hereford, England, suffered a data breach back in October, when threat actors attacked the institution’s systems. However, at the time, the school reassured that the personal information of students and staff was safe. Yet now, the school, which has around...
Caitlin Tilley reports: Twenty million Americans are at risk of ‘dangerous’ healthcare after a cyberattack at one of the country’s biggest hospital chains last month, security experts have told DailyMail.com. CommonSpirit Health — a system that runs 140 hospitals, and more than 1,000 care sites including cancer clinics, surgery hubs and stroke centers— suffered a major IT...
Gulf reports: Hackers targeted official websites in Bahrain just hours before the start of a parliamentary election on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry did not identify the websites targeted, but the country’s state-run Bahrain News Agency (BNA) could not be reached online, nor could the website for Bahrain’s parliament. “Websites are...
Sky News reports: The Federal Government has announced a new task force to combat cyber criminals after the attacks on Optus and Medibank. “The smartest and toughest people in our country are going to hack the hackers,” Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil said. Watch at Sky News. I’m sure hackers never thought...
Update: The Home Minister says the claims reported below are untrue because the Election Commission only releases information such as the names and identity card numbers of voters. Original post: Kalbana Perimbanayagam and Dania Nabila report: Another data breach has allegedly occurred in Malaysia, this time involving the personal details of 800,000 voters. The...
From an incident report appearing on Yale Medicine’s website: Yale Medicine has discovered a cybersecurity incident, involving the records of patients seen by Dr. Tito Vasquez at his former practice, Connecticut Plastic Surgery Group LLC, between 2009 and May 2021. This notice concerns a data security event that may have resulted in unauthorized access...
A cardiology practice recently discovered that early patient records stored in a basement locker had been stolen at some unknown time. Given that these were paper account ledgers, is there even a backup so that the practice will have the names and then-contact information of everyone who should be notified? Their media notice does...
Eduard Kovacs reports: A notorious ransomware group is offering to sell files allegedly stolen from German car parts giant Continental for $50 million. Continental reported in August that it had been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in hackers accessing some of its systems. The company said at the time that the attack had...
Pierluigi Pagani reports: Sobeys Inc. is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada, the company operates over 1,500 stores operating across Canada under a variety of banners. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company Limited, a Canadian business conglomerate. During the last week, grocery stores and pharmacies belonging to the company have experienced IT issues. Those IT...