Alina Bizga

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Personal information of roughly 150 patients of Toronto-based St. Michael’s Hospital has been stolen in a data breach, allegedly by a former third-party employee accused of taking them while on duty. According to a letter obtained by a local news channel, Unity Health Toronto, the entity overseeing three Catholic hospitals ... Read More

With physical offices shifting to a virtual environment during the pandemic, most remote workers can work from anywhere – café, a hotel or even a mountain lodge. However, this newfound mobility has drawbacks. Working from public locations with unsecured Wi-Fi connections could lead to the compromise of personal and company ... Read More

25% of Canadian IT decision-makers report they suffered a COVID-19-themed cyberattack IT teams from private and public sectors forced to create in-house policies and cybersecurity trainings for remote workers Only 36% of organizations have informed a regulatory body after suffering a data breach More than 25% of Canadian IT workers ... Read More

25% of Canadian IT decision-makers report they suffered a COVID-19-themed cyberattack IT teams from private and public sectors forced to create in-house policies and cybersecurity trainings for remote workers Only 36% of organizations have informed a regulatory body after suffering a data breach ... Read More

The FBI and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint warning to help Americans spot spoofed election-related domains and email accounts that subject them to the risks of cybercrime and disinformation. The alert, part of a series of public service announcements meant to prepare the ... Read More

A team of CyberNews researchers has disclosed that Snewpit, an Australian news-sharing platform, has leaked close to 80,000 users records. The exposed data housed in an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) server includes usernames, full names, email addresses, profile pictures and videos. Leaks include: • 256 videos uploaded by app ... Read More

As the year unfolds, more victims of the Blackbaud data breach come forward. The Sisters of Charity Health System (SCHS) recently disclosed that intruders may have accessed backup copies used by SCHS for fundraising during the cyberattack on their third-party cloud service provider. “On July 16, 2020, Blackbaud informed us ... Read More

James Jackson, a 58-year-old resident of Memphis, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for 13 counts of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud and mail theft. According to US Attorney Michael Dunavant, between 2014 and 2015, Jackson obtained the personal information of numerous individuals ... Read More

Hamburg’s data protection watchdog has fined a Hennes&Mauritz (H&M) subsidiary $41.4 million for violating stipulations of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to the Hamburg Data Protection Authority (HmbBfDI), the penalty was levied for excessive use of employee data collected and stored on company networks. Violations of ... Read More

With more than half the world now using social media and internet traffic increased 30%, new digital behaviors adopted during the coronavirus lockdown continue to reshape the digital landscape. Consumers worldwide shifted to online services, with more than 346 million people creating new digital identities over the past year. Is ... Read More