The Daily Sabah reports: About 1 million people’s information was stolen in a cyberattack targeting the municipality of Konya in central Turkey, media reports claimed. A municipality official confirmed the attack but did not disclose its scale. The Sözcü newspaper claims the ID numbers and other personal information of about 1 million people were stolen…
Category: Government Sector
Agents raid home of Kansas man seeking info on botnet that infected DOD network
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US military investigators have raided the home of a Kansas man looking for information about a crypto-mining botnet that has infected US Air Force servers. The raid is related to a November 2020 security breach that impacted the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the Air Force’s internal law enforcement agency. Read…
GA: College Park leaders ‘stunned’ one of their own busted for ID theft, stealing $100K
Randy Travis reports: Nearly a dozen former city of College Park employees have something in common. And it’s not good. According to police, 11 former employees are identity theft victims in a criminal case worth close to $100,000. […] LeShanda Mitchell faces 32 felony counts including identity theft, computer forgery, and money laundering. She worked as a…
PA: Acting Secretary Of Health And Deputy Don’t Testify At Contact Tracing Data Breach Hearing
Meghan Schiller reports: t’s a battle between transparency and legal quagmire: who should answer questions about the data breach of private health information for some 70,000 Pennsylvanians? KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked to one local state senator who tried to get the conversation started but said it ended in silence. “It’s great to ask questions that…
MA: Concord data breach affected about 70,000 across the country; hard drives still missing
Robert Fucci reports that Concord, Massachusetts is first notifying 70,000 people whose information was on 108 hard drives that went missing in 2019. It’s taken them until now to figure out whom to notify, it seems. “We’ve been waiting on some data from our attorney who has worked on this with us,” Crane said. “We…
Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.
This morning’s routine check of leak sites discovered a listing on Babuk threat actors’ leak site that many people have probably dreaded. The message under the shield says: “The negotiations reached a dead end, the amount we were offered does not suit us, we are posting 20 more personal files on officers, you can download…