This article by Alexander Castro originally appeared in Rhode Island Current on January 10, 2025 and is republished here under Creative Commons License. It was updated to replace several paragraphs in the “Slow Leak” section to include a response Deloitte sent the author post-publication. Rhode Island’s online public benefits system appears to be a fortress…
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Feds claims just 7% of available funds from OPM breach settlement, remainder returns to Treasury
Eric Katz reports: Current federal employees, retirees and others impacted by widespread breach of personal data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management took advantage of only a small portion of the money made available in a settlement agreement following the 2015 hack. Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit reached a settlement in 2022 with…
Chinese hackers breached Treasury Department workstations, documents in ‘major cybersecurity incident’
Ryan Knappenberger reports: The U.S. Department of the Treasury said on Monday that Chinese-backed hackers had breached its workstations and gained access to unclassified documents earlier this month in what it described as a “major cybersecurity incident.” The announcement comes just over a month after the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed recent Chinese hacks into the…
More details emerge about RIBridges data breach; Deloitte tells state threat actors have leaked data
Threat actors’ leak site unreachable due to DoS attack; DataBreaches given exclusive preview of leak Marc Fortier reports: The hackers behind a major cyberattack that hit the State of Rhode Island’s online system for delivering health and human service benefits have released some residents’ files to a site on the dark web, state officials announced Monday. “Unfortunately,…
Journalist faces Crime Branch action for exposing data breach, Kerala’s press fights back
The Hindustan Times reports: The Kerala Police Crime Branch’s move to seize the mobile phone of Aniru Ashokan, a reporter from a Malayalam daily, has triggered a wave of support from local journalists across the state. According to PTI, the Crime Branch’s action came after the journalist reported on the alleged breach of sensitive data…
Illinois Department of Human Services phishing attack affected more than 1.1M public assistance clients
Their substitute notice, as published on Effingham Radio: Springfield, IL-(Effingham Radio)- Pursuant to the requirements of the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), 815 ILCS 530/12, the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is notifying the media of an incident within IDHS State of Illinois email accounts: On April 25, 2024, IDHS experienced a privacy breach….