Hacking News

SINGHEALTH – Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions which include Singapore General Hospital and KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital – has been the target of a cyber attack said to be the most serious breach of personal data in Singapore’s history. Read more

A local rights group in Cambodia said Thursday that it had fallen victim to a hacking attack a week after a U.S. cybersecurity firm announced that an espionage group believed linked to China’s government had targeted a number of stakeholders in a hacking operation ahead of an election later this month. Read more

A major cyberattack on Singapore’s government health database resulted in the personal information of about 1.5 million people – including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong – being stolen. Read more

A City Council candidate in St. Paul, Minnesota, arrested after a topless photo of his estranged wife was posted on his campaign website says he’s the victim of a hacker. Read more

LabCorp, a Fortune 500 company, was shut down Sunday morning after hackers tried to access the private medical records of millions of people. The firm’s tech experts were working to bring the system back online. Read more

The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s birth certificate system was shut down for nearly a week last month after someone hacked into an internal website but did not take or alter citizens records, a government spokesman said Friday. Read more

Westmoreland County Housing Authority officials have not responded to a ransom demand to pay what could be more than $40 million to have access restored to its computer systems. Read more

Selena Gomez’s email was hacked and her identity was stolen, and the alleged culprit is a woman in New Jersey … this according to the L.A. County DA. The prosecutor claims Susan Atrach accessed Selena’s and her associate’s accounts several times from June 2015 through February 2016, then allegedly stole digital property and stored media

As we see a spike in the frequency of data breaches over the past couple of months, we have also witnessed a significant rise in cyber attacks on the healthcare industry. Once again, another healthcare data breach resulted in the compromise of patients’ details. Read more

One ethical hacker took it upon themselves to cheat their way to the top of Splatoon 2 charts this week to post a sincere message to Nintendo about the game’s exploits. Read more