What happens when hacking is becoming a trend that even our schools and students are not excluded?
Find out more in this article as we explore cyber security breaches in schools.
OVERVIEW Between June 27 and July 4 2017, a foreign, persistent and sophisticated threat group broke into SingHealth’s system and gained access to the Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) database holding electronic medical records. It stole the personal data of 1.5 million patients and the outpatient medication records of 160,000 of them — including Prime Minister…
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Background On May 3, 2006, a data analyst at Veterans Affairs had his computer equipment stolen from his home in Montgomery County, Maryland. The analyst had taken his laptop PC and external hard disk home without permission. The hard disk contained unencrypted insurance claim data for 26.5 million active duty troops and veterans, leaving them…
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Background In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered from a major cybersecurity breach. Hackers not only erased data from its systems and computer infrastructure, using a variant of the Shamoon wiper malware, but also stole nearly up to 100 terabytes of sensitive data from Sony. This information which was gradually released to the public included pre-release…
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Background On 27 June 2017, shipping and logistics giant Maersk was hit by NotPetya ransomware. NotPetya is a malware originally developed as a disk-wiping cyber weapon by Russian military. The malware’s target was businesses in Ukraine – but it quickly got out of hand and was spreading throughout networks around the world, with almost 50,000…
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Background In late-November 2013, Target Corporation’s (Target), one of the largest retail companies in the United States, security and payment system was breached. Attackers gained access to Target’s computer network, stole the financial and personal information of as many as 110 million Target customers, and then removed this sensitive information from Target’s network to a…
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Background Equifax, a major United States credit reporting agency, was breached in March 2017, with attackers accessing personal information of at least 145.5 million individuals. Equifax specifically traffics in personal data and with this breach, more than 40 percent of the population of the United States — names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers,…
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