Graham Cluley reports: It appears that Costa Rica isn’t the only country making headlines as it battles cyber attackers. For the past week and a half, Greenland’s health service has reportedly been struggling to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled its IT systems, causing long waiting times and forcing doctors to resort to using pen and paper…
Category: Government Sector
Missouri man pleads guilty to fraud scheme that used stolen identities of Johnson County employees
KTTN reports: A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identities of Johnson County, Kansas, government employees to make fraudulent purchases. Michael B. Becher, 40, of Raytown, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to participating in a conspiracy to commit credit…
Update: More than 90,000 South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach
Rory McLaren reports: South Australia’s Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a cyber attack last year. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told parliament on Wednesday a “forensic review” by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) uncovered the additional people that had had their personal data stolen, in addition to the 80,000 employees announced…
Conti claims to have inside information on Costa Rica, escalates threats
DataBreaches previously reported on the situation in Costa Rica, where the government has declared a national emergency following a ransomware attack by Conti. What is of special note in this incident are Conti’s escalating threats in their attempt to get their ransom demands paid and the self-identification of the affiliate involved (who calls themself “unc1756”)….
Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data
Alexandra Ulmer reports: A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with activists seeking to prove President Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims, according to court records reviewed by Reuters. The revelation indicates the breach of ballot data…
How criminals got away with hacking Pennsylvania unemployment accounts
Angie Moreschi reports: Paula Soffa is just one of the thousands of Pennsylvanians whose unemployment insurance account was hacked over the past year— not once, but twice. “They changed my password, they changed my username, and they changed my security questions,” Paula told 11 Investigates Angie Moreschi. “I was like what the heck! I was…