Here’s today’s reminder that it’s not always the huge-number breaches that pose the most risk or actual physical danger to people. Anosha Shariq reports: A helpline for Yakuza victims faces a shocking data breach, exposing personal details of 2,500 individuals and sparking fears of retaliation and safety risks. A tragic irony has unfolded as the…
Category: Government Sector
Authority: Up to 300k people impacted in City of Helsinki’s massive data breach
YLE News reports: The Safety Investigation Authority of Finland (Otkes) is continuing an investigation of a massive data breach that targeted the City of Helsinki last spring. Otkes said investigators have already collected more than 90 percent of the data involved in the exceptionally large-scale breach. The City first announced news of the breach in the spring….
Ransomware attack on Bucharest: data of hundreds of thousands of citizens involved
The following is an automated machine translation. Matthew Garvey reports: The data of approximately 200,000 citizens of Sector 5 (such as CNP, first and last name, address, among others) were put up for sale by the hackers who launched a cyber attack on the City Hall at the end of October. The attackers also gained…
Throwing caution to the winds, “kiberphant0m” tries to extort AT&T with Trump and Harris call llogs
While many of us were waking up to the election results yesterday, at least one person was busy trying to extort AT&T using the president-elect and current vice president’s call logs. In their post, “kiberphant0m” posted this demand concerning AT&T call logs: TRUMP & Vice President of the United States CALL LOGS — OFFICIAL WARNING…
City of Columbus, Ohio cyberattack by Rhysida affected 500,000 residents
There’s an update to an incident affecting the City of Columbus, Ohio. That’s the one where a judge prohibited David L. Ross from talking to the media about it after the city sought to silence him after he began publicly refuting the city’s false or inaccurate claims about the breach. The city subsequently settled its…
No: Administrative fine issued to Grue municipality under GDPR
The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has imposed an administrative fine of NOK 250,000 [USD $22,669.69] on Grue municipality for breach of GDPR requirements. They explain: Personal data that should have been confidential was made available to unauthorised persons in the municipality’s public records. This constitutes a breach of the municipality’s duty to ensure adequate…