Meaghan Ellis reports: A data breach of a Christian crowdfunding website has uncovered donations police officers and public officials made to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen accused of murdering two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. According to The Guardian, the transparency group known as Distributed Denial of…
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Ca: Privacy Breach at Algoma Public Health
Dan Gray reports: Some residents of Sault Ste. Marie have been notified by Algoma Public Health that their personal information had been breached. In a copy of the letter obtained by Saultonline staff, APH admits to having a staff member inadvertently send a compromising e-mail “to another health care service provider.” The incident occurred June…
UK: Latest on ransomware attack on 24 schools near Bristol
Harris Federation is not the only school academy trust hit by ransomware recently. Also hit in March was the Castle School Education Trust (CSET). As reported by Bristol Live, that attack affected not only CSET’s seven schools but 17 others maintained by the local authority who relied on the academy group’s IT infrastructure. While no ransom…
NL: A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office
Jeffrey Clark reports: A hard drive was stolen from a computer used to scan incoming mail items from Municipal Tax Service buildings in Amsterdam. Alderman Victor Everhardt (Finance) wrote this in a letter to City Council (pdf). The hard drive contains document scans sent by nearly 30,000 taxpayers from July 2020 to March 2021. Read…
Maine and North Dakota Are Latest States to Adopt the NAIC Data Security Model Law
Deborah George of Robinon + Cole writes: Two more state governors, those of Maine and North Dakota, have signed bills into law that adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) data security model law (Model Law). Maine and North Dakota join several other states that have already passed similar laws. Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa,…
In: In a game of Data Breach Hot Potato, companies deny being source of data for sale online
Earlier this week, OpIndia reported: After Facebook and Mobikwik, hackers have claimed to got access to another major tech giant in India. As per two posts by hackers on a hackers’ forum, they have gained access to Tata Communications servers. In the posts, the hackers are offering backdoor entry to anyone who is willing to…