On May 1, Qilin added Cobb County, Georgia to its dark web leak site. The ransomware gang claims to have acquired 150 GB of data and more than 400,000 files. They provided 16 image files as proof of their claims. Qilin threatens to release the data on May 3 if no payment is received. Because…
Category: Government Sector
Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office Employee On Leave, Suspected In Data Breach
Michael J. Rausch reports: An employee with the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) has been placed on leave for allegedly leaking personal information via a breach of data on over 100 former and one current employee. The sheriff’s office said that the leaked information included names, home addresses, and Social Security numbers. In a statement,…
Texas Health and Human Services Commission Notifies Additional Individuals Regarding Insider Wrongdoing Breach
There’s an update to an insider data breach previously announced in January 2025. Yesterday’s announcement brings the new total affected to almost 95,000 people. April 30, 2025. AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is notifying an additional 33,529 recipients of agency services and other affected individuals that their protected health, personal identifying…
Cybersecurity experts investigating “suspicious activity” in Iowa County network
Evan Bolin reports: Iowa County, Wisconsin is working with cybersecurity experts after suspicious activity was detected in the county computer network. County spokesperson Debbie Siegenthaler says the county detected the activity on April 28. At that point, the county took systems offline out of an abundance of caution. Siegenthaler says some government services and functions…
Data breach at collections vendor could affect some Bristol, Tennessee accounts
Another client of Nationwide Recovery Services has announced they were affected by the vendor’s breach. Robert Sorrell reports: BRISTOL, Tenn. — A data breach at a third-party vendor used by the city of Bristol, Tennessee, may have exposed sensitive personal information of residents whose accounts had been turned over for collection. During a City Council…
Pro-Russian hackers strike Dutch municipalities with coordinated DDoS attack
NL Times reports: A large-scale cyberattack hit multiple Dutch municipalities and provinces on Monday morning, rendering the websites of more than twenty local governments inaccessible for several hours. The attack, claimed by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName, caused significant disruption but did not compromise critical infrastructure or steal any data, according to AD. The group, which has…