CBS reports: A disruption last month in the Maryland Department of Health’s reporting of COVID-19 data was in fact a ransomware attack, the state’s Chief Information Security Officer Chip Stewart said Wednesday. Read more at CBS Baltimore.
Category: Government Sector
South African justice department clueless about hacked data
It’s not exactly the headline you’d want for your agency, but that’s what MyBroadband came up with for this report by Myles Illidge: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) has no idea whether any data was stolen during a ransomware attack on its systems in September 2021. “The Department cannot tell with certainty as to…
PhL Comelec official calls data breach report ‘fake news’
Jauhn Etienne Villaruel reports: A Commission on Elections (Comelec) official for the first time on Wednesday categorically denied its systems were hacked that allegedly compromised sensitive data as claimed by a newspaper report published Monday. Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022 In a tweet, Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon labelled as “fake news” the…
Ph: Court records stolen
Some data breaches remain low-tech. Ed Amoroso reports on the theft of paper court records — but 18 sacks of them on a three-wheeler (tricycle)? Amoroso reports that the man, identified as John Carlo Lumbres of Tanauan City, was arrested for stealing records of criminal cases in Batangas. Seized from Lumbres were 18 sacks containing…
A Missouri Reporter Is (Still) Getting Blamed For the Security Flaw He Exposed
Jack Gillum sought — and obtained — some records from Missouri Governor Parson’s office concerning the governor’s staff’s public statements and the governor’s intention to try to prosecute journalist Josh Renaud. Renaud’s crime: he discovered a vulnerability on a state website where by clicking the F12 key to view the source of a page, one…
Ph: Comelec investigating alleged data breach ahead of #Halalan2022
Update of January 12: A Comelec official has called the report of a breach “fake news.” See ABS-CBN for update. Ina Reformina and Jauhn Etienne Villaruel report: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suffered another data breach with 4 months to go before the crucial May national elections, a Manila Bulletin report claimed Monday, saying…