It is being called one of the biggest privacy breaches in the province’s history. The province’s privacy commissioner has released a 51-page report on a ransomware attack at EHealth Saskatchewan outlining what happened and what needs to happen to ensure this doesn’t happen again. Ron Kruzeniski says an SHA employee opened up a malicious […]
The Ministry of Health, Saskatchewan Health Authority and eHealth Saskatchewan are updating the public on a malware attack that occurred in January of 2020 where a privacy breach of personal health information may have occurred. A forensic investigation rendered no evidence that personal health information was compromised, but were unable to rule our a personal […]
Workers at Regina’s Evraz Steel Mill are getting some unexpected time off. A cyberattack on Evraz’s North American operations Wednesday night is causing what the company says is interruptions at its Regina operation and as a result, temporary layoffs are being issued. Evraz spokesperson Patrick Waldron would not confirm that the company had been hit […]
Some files have been compromised after the eHealth ransomware attack took place last month. eHealth had previously reported that there was no evidence of compromised information after the attack took place January 5th, but has recently discovered some files from their servers that were sent to IP addresses that are seen as ‘suspicious.’ The discovery […]
eHealth Saskatchewan is the most recent victim of a ransomware attack. The company that manages the electronic files for Saskatchewan Health Authority says on Sunday it was attacked, but it was immediately detected by antivirus software. It says some of the administrative systems were impacted and so some files have been encrypted, meaning they’ve been sort of locked […]
