Abinaya reports: An Armenian national extradited from Ukraine to the United States has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in Ryuk ransomware attacks that targeted organizations worldwide, including a company in Oregon. Karen Vardanyan, 35, received a 24-month federal prison sentence followed by 3 years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

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Daryna Antoniuk reports: Latvian police arrested a 23-year-old man suspected of hacking at least two companies, stealing personal information and attempting to extort money from the victims, authorities said Wednesday. The first attack was detected in February, while a second — using similar methods — was discovered in early September at TSC, an electronics repair...

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The EU built an early-warning system to catch the next major cyberattack before it spreads. Roughly 20 months later, auditors have found it still is not fully switched on. Jonathan Bent reports: Brussels has allocated €1.4 billion to defending Europe from cyberattacks. Its own auditors found that when that funding is passed on to third...

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Amir Kurz recently reported: Three weeks after his arrest, the State Attorney’s Office’s Cyber Department on Thursday filed a major indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who served as Chief Information Security Officer for the Hamat Group. The group itself has no connection to the charges. According to the indictment, Bar...

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Brian O’Donovan reports: Tech giant Google has been fined €403m by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over the processing of location data. Under data protection rules, such information must be processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner. The DPC said that its investigation into Google found failures in this regard meaning that people could...

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The mistaken cc: breach still happens.  Ann Neo reports: An invitation to an event sent by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) has sparked privacy concerns after a mailing list exposed the identities, contact details and, in some instances, workplaces of individuals with a genetic cancer condition. The e-mail, an invitation to a Living with...

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Choi Won-woo reports: Internal data amounting to 1,894 cases from the Korean-type heavy ion accelerator ‘Raon,’ built with a state budget of 1.5 trillion Korean won [USD $1,080,038,017.50 at today’s rates] was confirmed to have been leaked externally. The estimated time of the leak is 2022, and the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Heavy Ion...

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Alexander Martin reports: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed on Wednesday an emergency mechanism allowing any EU country to summon the bloc’s governments in response to security threats including sabotage, cyberattacks and drone incursions. Delivering her annual State of the Union address in Strasbourg, Von der Leyen said threats were “mounting on our...

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Mike Stimpson reports: Some patient services may be affected as the general hospital in Nipigon responds to what it describes as a “cyber security incident.” An incident involving ransomware affected information technology systems, Nipigon District Memorial Hospital stated in a post on social media. […] Nipigon Mayor Suzanne Kukko told CFNO’s Al Cresswell “the hospital...

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Matthew Sellers reports: Revolut wasn’t hacked in the usual sense. No one broke into its servers or slipped malware past its defences. Someone asked for customer data, from what looked like a genuine government email address, and Revolut handed it over. That email is now behind one of the stranger data incidents to hit a...

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Dev Kundaliya reports: Revolut recently disclosed a security incident in which an unauthorised third party obtained sensitive customer information by sending fraudulent requests from the email domain of a legitimate government agency. People claiming responsibility for the incident have posted samples of the allegedly stolen information across several Telegram groups and the material appears to...

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Jonathan Greig reports: Five alleged members of the Black Axe cybercriminal organization will make their first court appearance on Monday after being extradited from South Africa. Prosecutors unsealed a 2021 indictment accusing the five men of conducting lucrative romance scams that stole thousands of dollars from more than 100 people. Perry Osagiede, Franklyn Edosa Osagiede,...

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Emma Kirk reports: A school in Perth’s north has been targeted in a cyber attack, with hackers stealing students and families’ personal information. St James Anglican School, in Perth’s north, identified a cyber breach involving unauthorised access into its computer systems. Parents were advised the school immediately contained the cyber security incident and secured its...

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Dan Cooper, Jadzia Pierce, Kristof Van Quathem, Atli Stannard, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses, Diego Bonomo, John Bowers, Sam Jungyun Choi, and Laura Schukraft of Covington and Burling write: In recent months, children’s online safety and privacy have moved to the top of the EU’s digital agenda. The European Commission is expected to outline its...

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Joseph Freixes reports: Six in 10 cyberattacks recorded in Colombia target health sector institutions, a figure that highlights the growing exposure of hospitals and clinics to digital threats. The figure, included in a Biofile report based on a measurement analyzed from IBM’s X-Force Index, shows that medical information has become one of the main targets...

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JiJi Press reports: Japan’s Digital Agency said Friday that about 246,000 sets of personal information, including the names and email addresses of government employees, may have been compromised through the unauthorized access of a network system operated by the agency. So far, no secondary damage such as the misuse of the possibly breached personal information...

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Nicholas Boyle, Claire Kermond, and Alexandra Moore of White & Case write: On August 31, 2026, the Australian Government released a Privacy Reform – Consultation Paper (the Consultation Paper) and an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection Bill) 2026 (Exposure Draft) detailing proposed changes to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy...

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Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Korea’s privacy regulator is sharply raising the cost of data breaches, aiming to push companies to treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost of doing business. Starting Friday, companies found to have leaked the personal data of 10 million or more people through intent or gross negligence...

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The  Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is set to strengthen cybersecurity measures at hospitals to counter a surging number of cyberattacks on medical institutions. The ministry has included ¥13.7 billion in its budget request for fiscal 2027 to implement the measures for protecting networks and deploying cybersecurity specialists. The request will...

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Lee Seunghyeong reports: Personal information of approximately 220,000 domestic and international users has been leaked from Gangnam Unni, a beauty medical platform operated by Healing Paper. On September 7, Healing Paper announced through a public notice that on September 4, there was abnormal access to the integration feature (API) used to view consultation records, resulting...

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