Daryna Antoniuk reports: Romania’s national oil pipeline operator Conpet said a cyberattack disrupted parts of its technology infrastructure and knocked its website offline earlier this week, adding that oil transport operations were not affected. Conpet, which operates about 3,800 kilometers (2,360 miles) of pipelines supplying domestic and imported crude oil and petroleum products to refineries…
FCC Cybersecurity Alert and Recommendations to Communications Providers
On January 29, 2026, the FCC issued public notice DA 26-96: PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU HIGHLIGHTS BEST PRACTICES FOR DEFENDING AGAINST RANSOMWARE ATTACKS By this Public Notice, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) urges communications providers to implement cybersecurity best practices to protect their networks…
Some good news: downstream victims of mass data theft campaigns are less likely to pay — incident responders
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: The Clop digital extortion gang for years perfected a method for wringing tens of millions out of cybercrime. Find a zero-day flaw, often in file transfer software, swarm vulnerable networks and post online the sensitive data of any victim unwilling to pay for a promise of data deletion. The Russian-speaking ransomware…
Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds
Shawn Slaght reports: Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Grace Hession David found that a privacy breach involving an employee at the Dr. F.H. Wigmore Regional Hospital did take place. The decision found that a unit clerk in the emergency department inappropriately accessed their own health records as well as the records of 98 other people…
Several Dutch agencies suffer major data breach
APA reports: Personal data of employees of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) and the Council for Justice was accessed by unauthorized persons as a result of a leak caused by a vulnerability in software used by government agencies, APA reports citing ANP news agency. According to the agency, a bug in Ivanti Endpoint Manager…
Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches
Harvey Kong reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog plans to consult lawmakers this year about introducing mandatory data breach reporting and related penalties, the body’s chief has said. Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Ada Chung Lai-ling on Saturday revealed details about the proposed legislative amendments to the city’s privacy ordinance, after authorities stalled the plan in…