Ax Sharma reports: The Canadian government department for foreign and consular relations, Global Affairs Canada was hit by a cyberattack last week. While critical services remain accessible, access to some online services is currently not available, as government systems continue to recover from the attack. Read more at BleepingComputer. Last night, the Treasury Board of Canada tweeted…
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Attorney General James Announces $600,000 Agreement with EyeMed After 2020 Data Breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a $600,000 agreement with EyeMed that resolves a 2020 data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 2.1 million consumers nationwide, including 98,632 in New York state. EyeMed — which provides vision benefits to members of vision plans offered by both licensed underwriters and employers — experienced a…
WA: Patient info possibly disclosed in Spokane Health District data breach
Erin Robinson reports: The personal health information of more than 1,000 people may have been disclosed when staff at Spokane Regional Health District opened a phishing email. The data breach happened on December 21, 2021. SRHD Information Technology staff were immediately alerted and discovered files containing client-protected health information may have been “previewed” by the…
Crawford County, Arkansas still impacted by ransomware attack last month
KNWA reports: Crawford County is still dealing with a cyberattack that happened around Christmas. According to the assistant to the county judge, unknown ransomware hit the county’s servers on December 26. Some limited previous coverage on the breach can be found here.
Hacktivists Claim Ransomware Strike on Belarus Railway Intended to Disrupt Russian Forces
Hacktivism is not dead, although it hasn’t been in the news quite as much as financially driven ransomware incidents these past few years. Lucas Ropek reports: In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and…
Chester County Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Area College Computer Networks
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Timothy Spillane, 39, of Chester Springs, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joel Slomsky to accessing a protected computer network without authorization, arising from his intrusions into the digital networks of two suburban Philadelphia-area colleges. According to court documents, between November 2017…