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ID, bank details, contact information at risk as cyber criminals hack PH Property Bendigo real estate agency
A regional Victorian real estate agency has fallen victim to a data breach.
Key points:
- The agency says about 200 customers could be impacted in a data breach
- About four months of data was stolen including names, contact information, bank details and IDs
- Cyber security experts say it’s becoming harder and more expensive for small businesses to protect client information
PH Property Bendigo sent an email to clients yesterday afternoon saying a staff member’s email address was hacked on March 15.
The hackers managed to get past security protocols by the company that include randomised passwords, 2-Factor Authentication for all email accounts, and an in-house internet firewall security system.
The company said four months of data was stolen which could affect about 200 customers.
Data stolen may have included names, contact information, bank details and documentation confirming identity.
The company said the cybercriminals were now targeting some clients of the small business using an email address with the first name Kayla*.
“You may have already received a fake email from her account requesting to open an attachment – please do not open these attachments,” the company said.
“Our current information shows that they have only emailed clients so far, however, there is a possibility that they have made a local copy of Kayla’s entire email account and will have access to any email that has been sent to or from her.”
The real estate agency said it has wiped the workers’ computer, reported the data breach to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, and hired IT experts to help.
Anyone who is a client of the agency is being urged to review their bank statements for any unusual activity and change any password associated with company accounts.
‘Happening every day’
Central Victorian Cyber security expert Brenton Johnson said these types of data breaches were happening every day across Australia, making life harder and more expensive for small businesses.
Mr Johnson praised PH Property for moving swiftly and said he was surprised the hackers got past the tight security…
Aarogya Setu’s journey from a quick fix for contact tracing to ‘health app of the nation’
Aarogya Setu started off as a contact tracing app for the country but is now integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), ABHA and with additional functionalities like sharing health status through QR code, Open API, health advisories, and testing lab details, “ it has transitioned into the health app for the nation,” National Informatics Centre (NIC) Director Seema Khanna told indianexpress.com. Incidentally, the app no longer enables contact tracing via Bluetooth, a feature the Aarogya Setu team says can be “re-introduced… depending upon the health department requirements.”
During the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak in India, after getting crucial inputs from epidemiologists and experts, it was understood that contact tracing was going to be the key factor in controlling the spread of the disease. Even developed countries were struggling in carrying out contact tracing, and implementing contact tracing for a nation like India with over a billion people was going to be even tougher.
MEITY-NIC had only a few weeks to architect a solution from scratch, develop the solution, test it and roll it out to millions of users. “As a response to the national crisis, a few enterprising and brilliant volunteers came together from industry and academia and facilitated the release of the initial framework and prototype in a matter of weeks. With the help of senior experts from government, private sector and academia, the prototype was further augmented and turned into a full-fledged app,” one of the team members said.
As many as 102 members including people from the government, industry and academia leadership were all part of the project. The app is currently being offered under the umbrella of MOHFW, NHA with NIC under Meity as the IT partner. Indeed, the app required funding to operate and continues to do so.
Prior to Aarogya Setu, contact tracing was being carried out manually, mostly through human contact tracers. The team was able to leverage the mobile app to carry out contact tracing on a mass scale. In the absence of Aarogya Setu, the nation would have needed lakhs of human contact tracers, who would need to go door-to-door in every nook and corner of the…
SHAREHOLDER ACTION REMINDER: The Schall Law Firm Encourages Investors in International Business Machines Corporation with Losses of $100,000 to Contact the Firm
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