Jeff Arnold reports: Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office spent more than $2.5 million for cybersecurity after a ransomware hack in April that put the personal data of an unknown number of residents at risk and came after federal authorities told him that his office’s cybersecurity systems were lacking. …. In the meantime, Raoul’s office…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: Prisoners at Mission Institution sue authorities over alleged privacy breach
Keith Fraser reports: A group of prisoners at Mission Institution is suing the authorities over an alleged breach of privacy that they claim posed a threat to them. The 47 prisoners say that from about April 2020 to July 2020 employees and servants of the federal medium and minimum security prison posted notices on a…
Ransomware attack on Grass Valley
The City of Grass Valley has a notice on YubaNet that begins: On June 29, 2021 the City of Grass Valley discovered an unknown source had made unauthorized access to our information systems. The perpetrators of this cyber attack informed the City they had obtained data from City systems and threatened to publish the data…
Au: Bendigo cyber menace Dean Poot pleads guilty to attacking Victoria Police phone lines
Serena Seyfort and Paul Shapiro report: A Bendigo computer hacker disrupted police phone lines with menacing messages including a ridiculous claim cops are “international scammers”. Dean Poot, 30, pleaded guilty in the county Court on Wednesday to charges including unauthorised impairment of electronic communication. Poot, unemployed, used various aliases, stolen identity information, bogus credit cards…
Former Intelligence Analyst Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison for Disclosing Classified Information to Reporter
A Tennessee man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter. According to court documents, Daniel Everette Hale, 33, of Nashville, began communicating with a reporter beginning in April 2013 while enlisted in the U.S….
Cyberattack Shuts Down Services in Greece’s Second-Largest City
The National Herald reports: As hackers – many sponsored by Russia and China and authoritarian governments around the world – have stepped up cyber attacks on municipal services in a number of countries, Thessaloniki‘s agencies were shut down over an electronic intrusion. That happened July 23, with Deputy Mayor of Business Planning, e-Government and Migration…