Seth Austin reports: The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (EEC) announced they discovered a data security breach on September 8, 2021. According to EEC, unredacted mining permit applications containing some mine owners’ and controllers’ personal information was available for public inspection at Department of Natural Resources’ field offices and on an EEC hosted website. Internal…
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Alberta Health says privacy breach possible on province’s vaccine passport website
CBC reports: The province’s vaccine record website experienced a possible privacy breach, Alberta Health said in a statement Thursday. Alberta Health says it has received reports of at least 12 users who downloaded the wrong information from the province’s COVID-19 vaccination record website on Wednesday. The record those users downloaded contained the name, date of birth and vaccine…
At least 3 Quad-Cities municipalities have fallen victim to cyber attacks
Sarah Watson reports: … In the Quad-Cities, at least three local governments paid out more than $100,000 to scammers. In all three cases, the criminals emailed local government officials pretending to be legitimate vendors the cities worked with. Rock Island County paid $115,000. LeClaire wired more than $222,000 in a similar case. Moline paid roughly…
Jury Convicts Maryland Man for Membership in Computer Fraud and Identity Theft Ring that Targeted State Governments
November 23 — A jury yesterday voted to convict Guy Cuomo a/k/a “John Monaco,” age 54, of Frederick, Maryland, of computer fraud, misuse of a social security number, aggravated identity theft and related conspiracy charges for his role in a scheme to sell information unlawfully obtained from the New York State Department of Labor and…
Little Rock officer arrested for ‘unauthorized access’ of personal information
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…
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…