Dickson Tam reports: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said it has received multiple notifications of data breaches involving Hong Kong Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, as well as electronics retailers Yoho Hong Kong and Broadway. As at 30th October, the authority had logged 51 complaints and 48 enquiries related to these…
JPN: Suntory Holdings says personal data of around 100,000 people leaked
Kyodo News reports: Leading beverage manufacturer Suntory Holdings Ltd. on Monday joined a growing list of firms reporting personal data leaks, saying information relating to around 100,000 people, including employees, was leaked following unauthorized access to an external cloud service used by the group. Suntory said it has not confirmed any misuse of the information…
PH: St. Luke’s Medical Center notifies NPC of personal data breach
ABS-CBN News reports: The National Privacy Commission said Monday it has received notification of a personal data breach from St. Luke’s Medical Center but declined to give details. St. Luke’s, which has hospitals in Quezon City and Taguig, said it identified unauthorized access to a platform supporting its mobile application managed by a third-party service…
Some reports of PHP bug exploitation
On October 29, Jonathan Greig reported: Multiple cybersecurity firms are reporting the successful exploitation of two recently announced PHP vulnerabilities, including one allegation of a breach involving U.S. government-affiliated servers. Cybersecurity firm GreyNoise said it has seen at least six successful exploitations of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, colloquially known as “PHP2Shell.” The bugs were added to…
NM: Bernalillo offers $82,000 to hackers to resolve ransomware attack
Daniel Espinoza reports: The town of Bernalillo is offering $82,000 to hackers in an attempt to resolve a ransomware attack that has disrupted key municipal services since October 16. The attack was first discovered when the town’s IT director noticed suspicious activity on the computer systems and began shutting down devices. “Eventually, he came across…
Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
The Guardian reports that supermarket freezers across Europe have been hit by a second suspected cyber-attack, with chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg reporting fridge temperatures rising overnight, similar to the hack of French stores last month. For more country-specific reports: AFP reports on the attacks in Belgium,SiliconRepublic reports on 13 SuperValu stores hit in…