UK’S LABOUR PARTY HIT BY CYBER ATTACK

LONDON: The Labour Party on Tuesday said it has experienced a “sophisticated and large-scale cyberattack” on its digital platforms ahead of midterm elections on December 12. The main opposition party said the attack did not succeed, because of “robust security systems”. The party is confident that no data breach occurred and has referred the matter to the National Cyber Security Centre.

Inc’s Google has signed its biggest cloud computing customer in health care to date, in a deal giving it access to data sets that could help it tune potentially lucrative artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Google and Ascension, which operates 150 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities across the US, said the health care provider would move some data and analytics tools in its facilities to Google’s servers.

The deal was mentioned in Google’s July earnings call, but drew scrutiny on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Google would gain personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states.

The Journal reported that the data involved in the project includes lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalisation records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, along with patient names and dates of birth.

Google said in a blog post on Monday that patient data “cannot and will not be combined with any Google consumer data”.

LABOUR PARTY SUFFERS MAJOR CYBERATTACK

Britain’s main opposition Labour party said on Tuesday it had suffered a “large-scale cyber attack” which undermined some of its campaign efforts for next month’s election.

“We have experienced a sophisticated and large-scale cyber attack on Labour digital platforms,” the party said in a statement. AGENCIES