Hacking

• Hackers steal children’s school photos following a privacy breach

  Hackers made off with hundreds of images of students from various schools across Calgary and the rest of Canada following a complicated privacy breach.

  Education

  Feb 14
  
• City of Peterborough’s social media account on X hacked, taken over

  On Monday morning, the city says its X account @CityPtbo was hacked on Sunday and had been renamed @JupiterExhanqe. The city has since regained control of its account.

  Crime

  Jan 15
  
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• A Chinese cyber espionage operation is hitting U.S. infrastructure, West warns

  Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies say the cyber actor, known as Volt Typhoon, has avoided detection by blending in with normal Windows operations.

  Tech

  May 24, 2023
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• When hackers took over her Facebook page, a Vernon, B.C. photographer found a way to adapt

  The Vernon business owner says her attempts to get help from Facebook to recover the business page, which had been taken over by meme-posting hackers, didn't go anywhere.

  Canada

  Apr 4, 2023
• Code Grey remains in effect at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay

  The IT Code Grey was issued at 10:53 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 5 due to what the hospital is calling a 'suspected cybersecurity incident.'

  Health

  Feb 17, 2023
• Court documents detail RCMP hacking investigation into Alberta politician Thomas Dang

  Court documents show Mounties were initially pursuing criminal charges against an Alberta legislature member who admitted to hacking a government health website.

  Politics

  Jul 14, 2022
• Russian officials charged in years old hacks of critical infrastructure

  Four Russian officials, including hackers with a government intelligence agency, have been charged with the malicious hacking of critical infrastructure between 2012 and 2018

  World

  Mar 25, 2022
• Personal information about patients obtained in N.L. cyberattack, officials say

  Authorities say employee information that hackers accessed includes names, addresses, contact information, employee identification numbers and social insurance numbers

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2021
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• Biden says next ‘real shooting’ war could be result of major cyber attack

  "I think it's more than likely we're going to end up, if we end up in a war ... it's going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence," Biden said.

  World

  Jul 27, 2021
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• Ransomware attack suspected from REvil gang hits at least 200 U.S. companies

  The criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya, using its network-management package as a conduit to spread the ransomware through cloud-service providers.

  World

  Jul 2, 2021