CBC News reports: When Kelsey Puddister-Collins opened an email from Newfoundland and Labrador Fertility Services on Tuesday, she said she was mortified to see the names and email addresses of over 100 people on the email list. Puddister-Collins’ information was among those shared in a data breach. The email was a survey about her experience in…
Category: Government Sector
Deputy U.S. Marshal Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Cell Phone Location Information Unlawfully
This Department of Justice – Office of Inspector General press release from June 30 is a recent reminder of the insider threat: A deputy U.S. Marshal pleaded guilty today to misusing a law enforcement service to obtain cell phone location information for personal use. According to court documents, Adrian Pena, 49, of Del Rio, Texas,…
Za: Information Regulator slaps Justice, Constitutional Development Department with R5m fine
IOL reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has been ordered to pay a R5 million fine following its failure to comply with an Enforcement Notice after contravening the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia). On May 9 the Information Regulator issued an Infringement Notice against the department for contravening various sections of…
San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department update: can’t rule out that PII and PHI were accessed in ransomware attack
The Fontana Herald News alerts us to an update by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department concerning the ransomware attack they experienced in early April. The county now states that they have been unable to determine definitively if personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) were accessed. From the county’s June 23 notice:…
Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military
Joseph Menn reports: A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start of the war between the countries. Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some…
Former RAIDforums member “DataBox” sentenced to prison by Amsterdam court
A former member of RAIDForums was sentenced to prison today by an Amsterdam court. The 25-year-old man, Erkan Sezgin, was known as “DataBox” on RAIDforums when he listed the data of millions of Austrians for sale. Sezgin, who was employed as a data engineer at Matrixian Group, was arrested in November 2022 and detained until…