BR24 reports that a municipality in Bavaria has been hit by a trojan with a ransom demand (translation): When Ernst Walter turns on his computer, he can hardly believe his eyes. The executive director of the Kammeltal municipality in the Günzburg district can no longer open anything: “Instead of normal files, there was only a…
Category: Government Sector
AU: Service NSW kept victims in dark after hackers stole personal data
Jess Malcolm reports: The NSW government has deliberately failed to inform tens of thousands of people that their personal information was stolen in a cyber security attack on Service NSW employee emails, as the agency says it has no obligation to notify affected customers. Documents obtained by The Australian show Service NSW decided not to…
Vermont Health Connect had 10 data breaches last winter
Katie Jickling reports that there were 10 instances where individuals saw other individuals’ information when connecting to Vermont Health Connect. I wouldn’t call that 10 data breaches. It sounds more like one problem that happened to 10 people. In any event, she reports: Andrea De La Bruere, executive director of the Agency of Human Services,…
BR: The National Library website falls victim to a ransomware attack and goes offline
Wellington Arruda reports (translation): Last Sunday [April 11], the National Library website was the target of a ransomware attack and needed to be taken down. The agency, linked to the Special Secretariat for Culture, opted to shut down the servers to alleviate the potential problems caused and new invasions. However, last Tuesday [April 13] the site was activated again, and…
NL: A hard disk with data of 30,000 people stolen from the Amsterdam tax office
Jeffrey Clark reports: A hard drive was stolen from a computer used to scan incoming mail items from Municipal Tax Service buildings in Amsterdam. Alderman Victor Everhardt (Finance) wrote this in a letter to City Council (pdf). The hard drive contains document scans sent by nearly 30,000 taxpayers from July 2020 to March 2021. Read…
Cyber attacks on the municipalities of Brescia, Caselle Torinese and Rho: first stolen data published
Marco A. De Felice has an update on some Italian municipalities hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware. This site has previously reported that Brescia and Rho had been hit, but now De Felice reports that DoppelPaymer operators have started dumping data from Brescia, Caselle Torinese, and Rho: The three municipalities decide not to pay the ransom requested…