Update of January 12: A Comelec official has called the report of a breach “fake news.” See ABS-CBN for update. Ina Reformina and Jauhn Etienne Villaruel report: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suffered another data breach with 4 months to go before the crucial May national elections, a Manila Bulletin report claimed Monday, saying…
Category: Government Sector
Maryland health workers, lawmakers want answers as problems persist a month after cyberattack
Steve Thompson reports: State health workers still often can’t use computers, access shared drives and get to important data a month after a cyberattack crippled Maryland’s health department, the head of a union representing agency employees said Friday. They’ve received little information about what’s going on and are preparing for the possibility that their systems could remain…
Grass Valley discloses 2021 data breach
Yesterday, Grass Valley in California announced they had suffered a breach last year. Their disclosure does not say when they first detected any breach, but reports that their investigation determined that unauthorized access had occurred between April 13, 2021 and July 1, 2021. After further investigation, Grass Valley discovered that the unauthorized person transferred files…
Albania arrests four over massive personal data leak
Maria Daisy reports: Prosecutors in Albania arrested four people on Friday for stealing the personal data of more than 630,000 people which then ended up in the public domain, including salary figures and car registrations. Two of the arrested men were IT technicians working at the state tax office and two others, who had bought…
Cyber attack on UK’s Defence Academy had ‘significant’ impact, officer in charge at the time reveals
Deborah Haynes reports: A cyber attack – possibly by China or Russia – hit the academic arm of the UK’s Ministry of Defence and had a “significant” impact, the officer in charge at the time has revealed. Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who retired from the armed forces in August, said the “sophisticated” hack – discovered…
Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing personal info on 38 public housing applicants
Here’s one I missed, but luckily Zack Whittaker noted it in his weekly newsletter (and if you don’t get his newsletter, you should subscribe!) The Mainichi reported: The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has lost two floppy disks containing personal information on 38 people, the department announced on Dec. 27 The MPD said the floppy disks…