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Those with a Louisiana ID, registration or driver’s license could have their personal data exposed as a major cyber attack targeted the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles as well as other Government entities. According to the Governor’s Office of Homeland Read More …
Australia’s peak privacy body that monitors potential breaches has fallen victim to a cyber attack. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has confirmed data belonging to law firm HWL Ebsworth has been stolen by Russian criminal ransomware hackers. Read Read More …
Media watchdog Ofcom has confirmed that it is a victim of a cyber-attack by hackers linked to a notorious Russian ransomware group. Confidential data about some companies regulated by Ofcom, and personal information from 412 employees was downloaded during the Read More …
Spying on opposition leaders, dissidents and critics has always been a norm in countries ruled by right-wing, fascist or authoritarian governments. The latest method has been to use emerging technologies which penetrate email accounts or smartphones and acquire all information Read More …
A prominent Australian law firm is investigating claims hackers have published data taken from the company on the dark web. HWL Ebsworth, which has clients at either commercial or government level in every state or territory, on Friday said it Read More …
A Russia-linked ransomware gang responsible for a global cyber attack that has led to 5,000 Aer Lingus staff having their data stolen may have acquired enough information for identity theft, a leading cybercrime expert has warned. US company Progress Software Read More …
Cyber-criminals made off with the personal and banking information of at least 100,000 Nova Scotians last week, before the Nova Scotia government secured a file transfer service that had been breached as part of a global attack on MOVEit. Nova Read More …
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor said approximately 260,000 customers’ data was exposed online due to a misconfigured cloud environment. Along with customers in Japan, data of certain customers in Asia and Oceania was also exposed. Toyota Motor has implemented measures to Read More …
British Airways and retailer Boots said their staff were amongst those hit by a cyber attack on Zellis, a payroll provider used by hundreds of companies in Britain. British Airways, owned by IAG, said it had notified affected employees and Read More …
In the summer of 2020, Jonas Rey, a private investigator in Geneva, got a call from a client with a hunch. The client, the British law firm Burlingtons, represented an Iranian-born American entrepreneur, Farhad Azima, who believed that someone had Read More …