AP reports: A recent investigation into a massive cyberattack against the city of Kingman shows that up to 200 residents had their personal information breached, yet the city still can’t explain how their system was infiltrated. Kingman city officials said the completed investigation revealed that a “limited number” of residents’ information were affected by the…
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U.S. State Department recently hit by a cyber attack – Fox News
Reuters reports: The U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command, a Fox News reporter tweeted https://bit.ly/3z7RTH7 on Saturday. It is unclear when the breach was discovered, but it is believed to have happened a couple of…
NZ: An isolated ransomware attack occurred on 21 July at the Search and Rescue Base at Aoraki/Mount Cook.
DOC reports: Department of Conservation Deputy Director General Corporate Services Rachel Bruce says DOC will be in contact with 11 people whose personal information may have been compromised in a ransomware attack. “An isolated ransomware attack occurred on 21 July at the Search and Rescue Base at Aoraki/Mount Cook. “The Search and Rescue (SAR) base…
Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system that trolled country’s supreme leader
Graham Cluley reports: On 9 July, Iran’s railroad system came under attack from hackers. The attackers posted messages on station departure boards warning of “long delay[s] because of cyberattack”, and suggesting inconvenienced passengers call “64411” for more information. 64411 is reportedly the telephone number of the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. With…
Data breach from contact tracing survey ‘low risk’ to Hoosier privacy, 750,000 affected
WANE reports: The Indiana Department of Health announced Tuesday it is notifying nearly 750,000 Hoosiers that data from the state’s COVID-19 online contact tracing survey was improperly accessed back in July. The data included name, address, email, gender, ethnicity and race, and date of birth. “We believe the risk to Hoosiers whose information was accessed…
Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
Ax Sharma reports: A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified “no-fly” records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Read more on BleepingComputer. The government wouldn’t respond to inquiries by BleepingComputer as to whether this was the government’s Terrorist Screening Center list, and whether…