Lea Kahn reports: The East Windsor Township’s computer system has been compromised by unknown hackers, but it took more than two weeks for township officials to publicly acknowledge the breach and notify township residents. A message – “Notice of Cyber Incident” – scrolled across the top of the East Windsor municipal website March 18. It…
Category: Government Sector
A security lapse exposed India’s CISF personnel files and health records
Zack Whittaker reports: Internal documents, officer health records, and personnel files belonging to India’s Central Industrial Security Force were spilling online because of a data security lapse. A security researcher in India, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation from the Indian government, found a database packed with network logs generated by…
Ph: ‘Media was right’: Lawmakers confirm data breach, hacking of voters’ info
Joseph Pedrajas reports that there is an update to the alleged data breach that a Commission on Elections official called “fake news:” After about two months of investigation and various denials from different concerned agencies, lawmakers on Thursday, March 17 confirmed that there was “indeed a security breach” in the operations of the Commission on…
Iranian hackers leak Mossad chief’s personal information
Lilach Shoval reports: Iranian hackers on Wednesday published a video on an anonymous Telegram channel featuring personal photos and documents allegedly obtained from a phone used by the wife of Mossad Director David Barnea. The video was posted on the “Open Hands” channel, which according to Israeli media was created on Tuesday. Its owners claimed to have…
Israeli government websites crash after ‘massive’ cyberattack, officials say
Emanuel Fabian reports: Israeli government websites were downed for over an hour due to a major cyberattack on Monday evening, officials said. Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel held an assessment with officials due to the “broad cyberattack” on government websites, a statement from his office said. Users attempting to enter sites with gov.il extensions were unable…
State Bar Breach Exposed Thousands More Confidential Records Than Original Estimates, Investigation Shows
Alaina Lancaster reports: More than 60,000 additional confidential attorney discipline records were exposed in a data breach of the State Bar of California’s case management system, according to an ongoing investigation. The bar’s IT incident response team and a third-party forensic firm calculated that more than 322,525 confidential records were available during the leak, compared to…