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Canadian federal police said on Friday their systems were targeted by an "alarming" cyber attack but there was no impact on operations and no known threat to the safety of Canadians. "The situation is evolving quickly but at this time, there is no impact on RCMP operations and no known threat to the safety and security of Canadians," a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told reporters on Friday afternoon. "While a breach of this magnitude is alarming, the quick work and mitigation strategies put in place demonstrate the significant steps the RCMP has taken to detect and prevent these types of threats," the spokesperson added. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they launched a probe into the attack and were trying to determine the extent of the breach, adding there were no known impacts on intelligence services. Further details were not immediately known. The Canadian government said late last month that its foreign affairs dep...

Australian firms have suffered a flood of cyberattacks, putting the spotlight on country's understaffed cybersecurity industry which experts say seems ill-equipped to tackle such hacks, thus endangering sensitive information of millions of people. Here is a list of companies that have been hit by data breaches so far this year: Optus Australia's second-largest mobile operator and a unit of Singapore Telecommunications was the first to report a data breach that affected up to 10 million customers, about 40% of the nation's population. The data exposed included home addresses, drivers' licences and passport numbers. Medibank Health insurer Medibank Private, which covers about one-sixth of Australians, said personal and significant amounts of Health claims data of around 9.7 million of its current and former customers was compromised, forcing it to flag a hit to earnings and withdraw forecast for a key metric. Woolworths Australia...

A Queensland woman who alleged ly covered a legally parked car in front of her house with dog poo and hot water, in retaliation for the motorist ignoring a handwritten “no parking” sign, has launched a fresh attack , the victim says. The car owner Natalie Mayers shared new “vile messages” sent to her online, and said Queensland Police were aware of the escalating situation. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Dog poo parking dispute spirals into alleged online attack. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Mayers, True Rebel Heart business owner, posted footage of her confrontation with the woman in a video that went viral on social media, showing her car covered in poo and “still steaming” in East Toowoomba. The original video captures the woman responding to Mayers, who asked about the alleged attack. “Why did you park out the front of my house when there’s a sign that says ‘please don’t’?,” the woman says. The situation then escalated when the woman alleged ly found Mayers...

More than 400 million Twitter users may have had their personal details stolen and put up for sale online in a major cyber attack . A cyber crook claims to be selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users including celebrities, businesses and government organisations on an online hacking forum. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Woman reveals Apple gift card scam. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The author of the post shared two samples of supposedly stolen data, with former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison among the users they claim are affected. The user profiles up for sale contain public and private Twitter data, including people’s email addresses, names, usernames and phone numbers. A system vulnerability last year allowed the data to be stolen before the issue was fixed in early 2022, the hacker claims . A cyber crook claims to be selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users including celebrities, businesses and go...