Nick Horner reports: A “serious” online data breach at Birmingham City Council saw personal information – allegedly the details of “vulnerable children” – put at risk. Data, said to relate to youngsters entitled to free bus passes, was uploaded “in error” by staff and was “potentially available externally”, the authority said in an email raising the alarm,…
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MN: Minneapolis Police Officer’s Data Misuse Claims Head to Retrial
There’s an update to litigation stemming from misuse of a Minnesota state database. The case began in 2013, when Amy Krekelberg received a notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources that informed her that an employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state,…
WA: Douglas County targeted as part of international cyber attack
Tony Buhr reports: Douglas County was one of thousands of servers targeted in a cyberattack by a group out of China. It was an international attack that occurred March 2 and exploited a weakness in Microsoft servers, said Brad Hudson, Douglas County management information systems manager. The attack required Hudson to spend Friday through Sunday…
Finland pins Parliament hack on Chinese hacking group APT31
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Finnish officials formally blamed today a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT31 for a cyber-attack that breached the Finnish Parliament’s internal IT systems last year. The attack, which took place in the fall of 2020, also resulted in attackers gaining access to the email accounts of some members of Parliament,…
NY: Tri County Sheriff Dispatch hit with ransomware attack
News10 reports: The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says on Tuesday around 9:30 p.m. the Tri County Public Safety network which includes Albany, Saratoga, and Rensselaer Counties, was hit with a ransomware attack. Their office reportedly worked throughout the night with their vendors, as well as NYDHSES Office of Counter Terrorism Cyber Incident Response Team to…
Ransomware attack on Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City servers managed by Tech Mahindra
The Economic Times reports: Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Smart City said on Monday that it had not suffered any data loss due to a ransomware attack late last month and that it had also not paid ransom to the hackers. This is perhaps the first known instance of a cyberattack on a Smart City project, which…