The announcement appeared on the Telegram channel of a group calling themself “SiegedSec:” TIME FOR SOME 1337 H4CKTIVISM!!! (4 the record, we will still do blackhat stuff đ Like many, we are also pro-choice, one shouldn’t be denied access to abortion. As added pressure to the U.S government, we have leaked many internal documents and…
Category: Government Sector
USB devices with personal data of all 460,000 Amagasaki residents lost
Kumiko Nakatatsuka reports: An employee who works for an Amagasaki city subcontractor lost USB storage devices containing residents’ personal information after drinking at a restaurant, the city government announced on June 23. The employee works for a company that was subcontracted by the Kansai regional branch of Biprogy Inc. in Osaka to pay pandemic relief subsidies…
Brooks County pays off hacker with tax dollars after ransomware attack
Andrew Christiansen reports: A recent ransomware attack on Brooks Countyâs Justice of the Peace and district courts, and finance department, cost it more than $37,000. âIâm very unhappy because of that,” said resident Mario Villarreal. “Itâs scary â of course it is â for everybody.â Brooks County Judge Eric Ramos said the attack took place…
Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff â who leak it
Simon Sharwood reports: India’s government last week issued confidential information security guidelines that calls on the 30 million plus workers it employs to adopt better work practices â and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website. Read more at The Register.
UK: Thousands of service familiesâ addresses and private information compromised after surge in security breaches at MoD
David Wooding reports: Defence chiefs were told to get a grip yesterday after a surge in security and data breaches. Thousands of service families have had addresses and private information compromised. Figures reveal more than a quarter of all blunders since 2010 took place in the last year â 559 in 2020-21, and 2,000 in…
Ransomware attack reported at Council on Aging of Buncombe County
WLOS reports from North Carolina: A local non-profit that works with thousands of seniors has had a security breach. The director of Buncombe Countyâs Council on Aging believes someone hit the non-profitâs computers with ransomware Monday and staff were concerned private information might have been stolen. News 13 has confirmed Asheville police are involved.