One of Victoria’s major healthcare providers, Eastern Health, is dealing with a significant IT system outage that is affecting one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. Eastern Health operates Angliss Hospital, Box Hill Hospital, Maroondah Hospital, Wantirna Health and Yarra Ranges Health, among other services in an around Victoria. The outage, which has forced the…

MADRID—A ransomware cyberattack on one of Barcelona’ s main hospitals has crippled the center’s computer system and forced the cancellation of 150 non-urgent operations and up to 3,000 patient checkups, officials said Monday. The attack Sunday on the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona shut down computers at the facility’s laboratories, emergency room and pharmacy at three…

The cyberattack that hit the Los Angeles Unified School District last September was worse than initially reported—with hackers accessing about 2,000 sensitive student records, district officials confirmed Feb. 24 to The Epoch Times. A ransomware group stole a portion of the district’s records and threatened to publish the information if it did not pay a…

NEW DELHI—The leading hospital in India’s capital limped back to normalcy on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients resumed Tuesday after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data. The hospital worked with federal authorities to restore the system and strengthen its…

The Russian cybercriminals that stole personal data from nearly 10 million Australians have released the single largest data dump to date, announcing it was “case closed” for the Medibank hacking saga. Six zipped folders, with around 6.5 gigabytes of raw data in a folder called “full” was published by the hacking group on Thursday. A…

Hackers gained control of a commercial LED billboard in Brisbane, Australia for a few minutes and displayed pornographic images on it. The situation highlighted how inter-connected infrastructure can be and came amid a spate of major cyberattacks against Australian businesses that have put the personal data of millions of individuals at risk. The attack occurred…

Ongoing racial tensions and economic instability will leave Western democracies too weak to defend themselves against mass disinformation and cyber attacks from autocratic regimes, warns retired U.S. Army Major General John Davis. The former major general named China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea as some of the key aggressors waging information and cyber warfare on…

The cyberattack on Australia’s largest health insurer Medibank is expected to cost the company up to $35 million (US$24 million). Medibank CEO David Koczkar told the company’s annual general meeting on Nov. 16 that the hack presented an “incredible challenge” but was confident the Medibank team would pull through. “Based on our current actions in response…

Commentary The Russian hackers alleged to be at the centre of a major hack of Australia’s largest health insurer Medibank have followed through with threats to leak private health data belonging to Australian customers on the dark web. Medibank refused to pay a ransom demanded by the hackers, fearful that doing so would encourage further…

One of Australia’s largest private health insurers has suffered a cyberattack just a week after telecommunications giant Optus was spurred into damage control after the data of millions of customers was leaked. The Medibank Group, which services around 3.9 million customers, revealed on Oct. 13 that a day earlier it detected unusual activity on its…