Micah Allen reports: According to the City of Odessa, mayor Joven was advised that the city dealt with a serious data breach. It was discovered that accounts assigned to a terminated high-ranking employee have been recently accessed, and sensitive information was transferred. Read more at CBS7, who will be reporting more on this story later…
Category: Government Sector
UK: ‘Just a slap on the wrist’ for Gloucester council data breach which saw people’s data fall into hands of criminals
Carmelo Garcia reports: After months of chaos which saw data fall into the hands of cyber criminals from Russia who hacked into Gloucester City Council, the authority will “just get a slap on the wrist”. The authority was targeted by hackers in late 2021 and public services across Gloucester were severely disrupted during the following year. The…
UK: Sex abuse victim’s details could be among hundreds revealed by data breach
Bradley Jolly reports: A sex abuse survivor is one of “around 400” victims of a “chilling” data breach, it tonight has emerged. The London Mayor’s Office blunder, currently under investigation, involves complaints about policing in the capital being made wrongly accessible via an official website. The survivor of sexual abuse has described her distress tonight. The probe centres…
Hillsborough notifies 70,000 of potential data breach in health, aging services
C. T. Bowen reports: Hillsborough County has notified more than 70,000 people that a global data breach may have put their personal information at risk. The breach involved the MOVEit file transfer tool, a third-party service that complies with federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. The breach also may have affected 106…
Bjorka strikes again? 34 million Indonesian Passports Exposed in a Massive Immigration Directorate Data Breach
Alicia Hope reports: Over 34 million Indonesian passports were leaked in a massive data breach impacting the country’s Immigration Directorate General at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Cybersecurity researcher and founder of Ethical Hacker Indonesia, Teguh Aprianto, disclosed the breach on his Twitter account @secgron, attributing the attack to a hacktivist identified as…
Chinese Hackers Breached Government Email Accounts, Microsoft Says
Julian E. Barnes, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swans report: Chinese hackers intent on collecting intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday night. The attack was targeted, according to a person briefed on the intrusion into the government networks, with the hackers going after specific accounts rather than…