Posted: Jan 11, 2021 5:13 PM ET | Last Updated: January 13
Canadian nurses Kristen Nagle and Sarah Choujounian, first and second from left, with other members of Global Frontline Nurses in a photo from January 2021 posted to Choujounian s Instagram account. The organization has made unsubstantiated claims about the pandemic, including that hospitals are committing fraud by misreporting cases of the virus and needlessly placing patients on ventilators in order to profit off the crisis. Nagle and Choujounian attended an event organized by the group last week in Washington, D.C.(Sarah Choujounian/Instagram)
Ontario s nursing regulator says it is investigating two nurses who travelled to Washington, D.C., last week to attend a rally by a group of their peers that has made unsubstantiated, conspiratorial claims about COVID fraud and hospitals alleged role in misrepresenting the coronavirus pandemic.
Hackers Access Personal, Banking Info of TransLink Employees in Ransomware Attack
Hackers accessed the personal and banking information of TransLink employees during a cyberattack that targeted the company’s IT infrastructure earlier this month.
The hackers “accessed and may have copied files from a restricted network drive,” according to an internal email by Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) to their employees. CMBC is the transit service company under the TransLink enterprise serving passengers in Metro Vancouver.
The email was obtained by The Global News on Wednesday, and said that the files contain payroll information such as banking information and social insurance numbers of employees from TransLink, CMBC, and Vancouver Transit Police, alongside with other network drives.
Following up on my year-end review of 2020 story, here are some of the biggest cybersecurity-related news stories of 2020 I couldn’t squeeze into that piece. Most are Canadian, but some are of enough significance that they are included here. The list might have been longer but a number of companies whose names were posted by ransomware groups refused to confirm if they were hit and their data copied:
Canadian-based PlanetDrugsDirect.com, which sold prescription drugs online, announces a security incident, hasn’t been online since;
Security researcher Jason Coulls discovers two open accounts with application source code, internal user names and passwords, and private keys belonging to Rogers Communications. No customer data was found. Later in the year Rogers notified customers that one of the companies it deals with left a database open with Rogers subscribers’ addresses, phone numbers and email addresses;