Oklahoma City Housing Authority (“OCHA”) is notifying individuals of data incident. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. This notice provides details about the incident, our response, and resources available to help protect information. What Happened? On December 21, 2021, OCHA discovered unauthorized emails were…
Category: Government Sector
37,800 people sent privacy breach notifications linked to Newfoundland and Labrador cyberattack
Rob Antle reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority has notified 37,800 people that their privacy was breached as part of last fall’s devastating cyberattack. That number equates to about one in every 13 people in the province. And according to Eastern Health, it could go even higher. Those affected include patients, along with current…
CentralSquare settles one Click2Gov data breach lawsuit
Between 2018 and the end of 2020, DataBreaches published dozens of news reports on municipal breaches involving CentralSquare’s ClicktoGov software. The software allows residents to pay utility bills or other municipal bills online. Now Top Class Actions reports that CentralSquare has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle litigation by some consumers. Consumers whose credit…
Israel’s Health Ministry website down after Iranian cyberattack
Adir Yanko and Itamar Eichner report: A group of hackers affiliated with Iran carried out a cyberattack on the website of the Health Ministry on Sunday, intermittently restricting access to the site from abroad. Pro-Iranian group Al-Tahira claimed responsibility for the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, which disrupts a website’s normal traffic by overwhelming the target…
‘Cyber attack from outside Albania’, AKSHI blocks online services
The following is a machine translation of a post by Euronews Albania: The National Agency of the Information Society has announced that our country is facing a cyber attack. For this reason, online services and government systems are closed until the neutralization of these criminal acts. According to the National Information Agency, the sophisticated attack…
Rhode Island sewer-system operator hit by cyber attack
Paul Edward Parker reports: The Narragansett Bay Commission, which runs sewer systems in parts of the metropolitan Providence and Blackstone Valley areas, was hit by a ransomware attack on its computer systems. […] “Last week, the Narragansett Bay Commission identified a cybersecurity incident that involved the encryption of data on certain computers and systems in its…