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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...

Australia's Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil on Sunday said the government would consider making illegal the paying of ransoms to cyber hackers, following recent cyber attacks affecting millions of Australians. Australia's biggest health insurer, Medibank Private Ltd, last month suffered a massive cyber attack, as Australia grapples with a rise in hacks. Singapore Telecommunications-owned telecoms company Optus, Australia's second largest telco, along with at least eight other companies, have been breached since September. Asked on ABC television on Sunday whether the government planned to look at outlawing ransom payments to cyber criminals, O'Neil said "that's correct". "We will do that in the context of ... cyber strategy," she said. The comments come after O'Neil, on Saturday, formalised a new cyber-policing model between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Signals Directorate - which intercepts electro...

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...

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...