Jessica Haworth reports: A phishing attack at Australian pension provider Spirit Super has resulted in “some personal details being compromised”. The ‘super fund’ confirmed that user data was breached on May 19, 2022 after an employee’s email account was accessed. An investigation into the incident found that there was “unauthorized access to a mailbox containing personal data”…
Category: Government Sector
Ransomware attack sends New Jersey county back to 1977
Brandon Vigliarolo reports: Somerset County, New Jersey, was hit by a ransomware attack this week that hobbled its ability to conduct business, and also cut off access to essential data. “Services that depend on access to county databases are temporarily unavailable, such as land records, vital statistics, and probate records. Title searches are possible only…
IL: Cyberattack costs City of Quincy $650,000
J. Robert Gough reports: Quincy Mayor Mike Troup said the city has spent about $150,000 on outside consultants and $500,000 for an encryption key to regain access to the city’s information services systems. In other words, $500,000 in ransomware. In a news conference Tuesday morning, Troup gave a timeline of events that have taken place…
Iran nuclear files Mossad seized in 2018 included stolen IAEA records – WSJ
The Jerusalem Post reports: Iranian nuclear documents seized by the Mossad in 2018 included secret records from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had accessed and used to create cover stories to hide parts of its nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Middle East intelligence officials told the WSJ that the IAEA documents, marked confidential,…
Ng: Robbers attack NPC office, steal birth certificates
Fikayo Olowolagba reports: The National Population Commission (NPC) Badagry office located at Town Hall near Topo Garage, in Lagos State has been attacked by robbers. A staff member of the commission, Mrs Funmilayo Bojrenu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Badagry that vital documents belonging to NPC were stolen. Read more at Daily…
Israeli Ministry Illegally Shared Biometric Images of Millions With Unknown Agency
Josh Breiner and Bar Peleg report: The Population and Immigration Authority illegally shared in the past seven years the facial images of millions of Israelis with an unnamed government agency. The actions of the Interior Ministry division were disclosed in an official report published last week by Roy Friedman, the head of the Israel National…