THV11 reports: According to the Little Rock Police Department, Officer Miles McWayne has been arrested for “unauthorized access” of the personal information of a citizen. The person filed a police report with the department in August after the reported incident took place in May. McWayne was officially charged with the misdemeanor of accessing the information…
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Indonesia probe police hack in latest cyber breach
Stanley Widianto reports: Indonesian police are investigating claims by a hacker who said this week they have stolen personal data of thousands of police officers, the latest in a spate of cyber attacks that has highlighted the country’s digital vulnerabilities. Using a now suspended Twitter handle, a hacker who said they were from Brazil claimed…
Number of cyber-attacks infiltrating critical New Zealand networks soars
Adam Bannister reports: New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has observed a 15% year-on-year jump in cyber-attacks against the country’s “nationally significant” organizations. More than 400 such incidents were recorded between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, up from 352 a year earlier, according to the NCSC’s latest annual threat report, published today (November…
More Accusations About a Canadian Hacker in the Wake of a Hoax Email from FBI Portal
The email in my inbox on Friday night had the subject line, “Hey sexy,” and appeared to come from “eims@ic.fbi.gov” <eims@ic.fbi.gov>. Under normal circumstances, I would have just sent it to trash, but the Twitter user known to me as “Pompompurin,” had alerted me to check my email for what he described as a funny…
Manitoba sued over privacy breach involving 9,000 children
Dean Pritchard reports an update to a previously disclosed breach: A class-action lawsuit will proceed against the province after confidential information about nearly 9,000 children with disabilities was mistakenly sent to agencies that provide services to them and community advocates. An email notice was delivered to potential claimants this week notifying them about the class…
Queensland water supplier Sunwater targeted by hackers in months-long undetected cyber security breach
Rory Callinan reports: Queensland’s largest regional water supplier, Sunwater, says it was targeted by hackers in a cyber security breach that went undetected for nine months. It has been revealed that hackers left suspicious files on a webserver to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform last year. Sunwater admitted the cyber breach after the tabling…