John Aguilar reports: The demand was big: $5 million to unlock Wheat Ridge’s municipal data and computer systems seized by a shadowy overseas ransomware operation. The response was defiant: We’ll keep our money and fix the mess you made ourselves. Read more at The Denver Post.
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GA: Former Dalton police officer sentenced to five years on probation for computer invasion of privacy and violating oath of office
Charles Oliver reports on an insider-wrongdoing case that was taken seriously: A former Dalton Police Department officer has been sentenced to five years on probation after pleading guilty to computer invasion of privacy and violation of oath by a public officer, according to District Attorney Bert Poston. Trevin Dane Stover of Resaca must also pay…
Ca: Yukon education department accidentally leaks student data
Chris Windeyer reports: A few errant keystrokes by an education department worker exposed the data of more than 500 Yukon students, according to a notification obtained by CBC News. “[T]he breach involves a risk of significant harm to your privacy,” reads the letter to affected students. The letter says names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates…
Correction
On September 20, DataBreaches published a post about an alleged hack of Ask.FM data from what was described as a March, 2020 hack. Ask.FM had not replied to this site’s inquiries by the time of publication. Ask.FM replied today and reminded me that they had addressed this same claimed hack in December 2021 when this…
Hackers steal South Carolina fire department’s paychecks
Bethany Fowler reports: Hackers allegedly stole over $8,000 in paychecks following an email hack from an Upstate fire department. According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Reidville Fire Department located at 3380 Hwy 417 on a report of fraud/payroll theft. Read more at News2.
Bjorka, the Online Hacker Trying To Take Down the Indonesian Government
Aisyah Llewellyn reports: The first that Indonesia heard about the hacker now known as Bjorka came when news broke at the beginning of September of a massive data leak. Some 1.3 billion SIM card registration details were stolen and listed for sale on a dark web online marketplace. The data was harvested in part as…