Some human errors are more dangerous than others. PA News reports: A data breach which may have put up to 100,000 people at risk of death or serious harm from the Taliban can now be reported more than three years after it took place. Here the PA news agency looks at the timeline of events…
Category: Government Sector
A year after cyber attack, Columbus could invest $23M in cybersecurity upgrades
There’s an update to the City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida that affected 500,000 residents but also resulted in the city trying to muzzle a whistleblower who tried to inform the community of the true extent of the breach. Jordan Laird reports: Days before the one-year anniversary of the cyberattack that temporarily crippled Columbus’ computer…
Air Force Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Disclose Classified National Defense Information
A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force assigned to the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base pleaded guilty today to conspiring to transmit classified information relating to the national defense (National Defense Information) on a foreign online dating platform beginning in or around February 2022 until in or around April 2022. “The…
CMS Sending Letters to 103,000 Medicare beneficiaries whose info was involved in a Medicare.gov breach.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has been busy issuing notices about breaches this week. First, it warned providers about a fraud scheme involving medical records requests. Now it is notifying Medicare beneficiaries whose information was involved in a data breach where threat actors were able to create online accounts using beneficiaries’ information…
Iran-linked hackers threaten to release emails allegedly stolen from Trump associates
Rebecca Falconer reports: An Iran-linked cyberattack group that hacked President Trump’s 2024 campaign is threatening to release another trove of emails it has [allegedly] stolen from his associates, including White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Roger Stone. The big picture: Reuters first reported the threat on Monday that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on X called a “calculated smear…
Ontario health agency atHome ordered to inform 200,000 patients of March data breach
Isaac Callan and Colin D’Mello report that Ontario’s health minister is ordering atHome, a provincial agency, to immediately notify approximately 200,000 patients whose data may have been breached in a vendor’s cyberattack in March. There appears to have been a breakdown in what should have happened, as the Health Minister reported that atHome had failed…