Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown
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London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown
ManuSec Canada Speakers From Subaru and Toronto Transit Discuss Cyber ResilienceCanadian manufacturers face rising cyber risk as IT and OT systems converge. Leaders from Subaru Canada and the Toronto Transit Commission outline how ransomware, supply chain exposure and legacy OT vulnerabilities demand stronger resilience, segmentation and incident response readiness.
The Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) confirmed that the data breach it suffered last year impacts about 750,000 Canadian investors. [...]
Canadian airline WestJet is informing customers that the cyberattack disclosed in June compromised their sensitive information, including passports and ID documents. [...]
Canadian Cyber Agency Warns of Rising Chinese Cyberthreats.The Canadian Center for Cybersecurity on Tuesday said it has observed "increasing levels" of malicious cyberactivity from China-linked hackers, including the group tracked Salt Typhoon. Exposed edge devices are at risk of attacks can be detected through mass scanning.
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack. [...]
A cyber-attack on Slim CD, which handles electronic payments for US and Canadian-based merchants, has potentially exposed the credit card details of 1.7 million people
Park'N Fly is warning that a data breach exposed the personal and account information of 1 million customers in Canada after hackers breached its network. [...]
Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year's 23andMe data breach. [...]
Canadian Retail Pharmacy Chain Says It's Reviewing Exposed Data on Gang's Leak SiteLockBit has begun to leak on its dark web site files of data the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang claims to have stolen in an April attack on London Drugs. The group had threatened to publish the exfiltrated data if the Canadian retail pharmacy chain does not pay a $25 million ransom demand.
Also: UnitedHealth Group, Nemesis Market, Phishing Tricks and AceCryptorThis week, Flipper Devices petitioned Canada, UnitedHealth Group dealt with its attack, Nemesis Market was seized, phishers fooled ML, AceCryptor returned to Europe, Brazil and Ukraine made arrests, another Ivanti flaw, London rebuked for possible data exposure, and Fujitsu reported malware attack.
PLUS: Juniper's support portal leaks customer info; Canada moves to ban Flipper Zero; Critical vulns Infosec In Brief Nearly half the citizens of France have had their data exposed in a massive security breach at two third-party healthcare payment servicers, the French data privacy watchdog disclosed last week.…
[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to running LeakedSource[.]com, a service that sold access to billions of passwords and other data exposed in countless data breaches. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the owner of Defiant Tech, a 32-year-old Ontario man named Jordan Evan Bloom, was hired in late 2014 as a developer for the marital infidelity site AshleyMadison.com. Bloom resigned from AshleyMadison citing health reasons in June 2015 -- less than one month before unidentified hackers stole data on 37 million users -- and launched LeakedSource three months later.
Multinational shipping company UPS is alerting Canadian customers that some of their personal information might have been exposed via its online package look-up tools and abused in phishing attacks. [...]