Dan Singleton reports: The Town of Didsbury was the victim of a cyber-attack on Sunday, March 21 when fraudsters encrypted the town’s information systems with ransomware and made a ransom demand to decrypt the system, town officials said Friday. Mayor Rhonda Hunter declined to say whether the Town of Didsbury has paid a ransom to…
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Report: Draft Executive Order to Require Software Vendors to Notify Federal Customers of Cyber Breaches
Jane Edwards reports: A draft of an executive order would direct software companies to inform federal agency clients in the event of a cyber attack within their organizations, keep more digital records and work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI on incident response efforts, Reuters reported Friday. The order would require multifactor authentication…
AU: Service NSW unable to notify 54,000 customers impacted by cyber attack
Justin Hendry reports: Service NSW has been unable to reach more than half the 104,000 customers who had their personal information stolen in an email compromise attack against 47 staff members last year. The data breach, which exposed 736GB of data between March and early April 2020, is also now likely to cost up to…
Public Notice: State Auditor’s Office efforts regarding Accellion data security
Public Notice: State Auditor’s Office efforts regarding Accellion data security breach As reported, a security breach at Accellion, a third-party file transfer service impacted the Washington State Auditor’s Office (SAO) in late December 2020. SAO first learned about the breach in mid-January 2021. Since that time, SAO has taken steps to identify the data files…
County auditor states CIC software for timeclock has been down since last Tuesday
Danielle Linton-Hatfield reports: During a regular Saline County Commission meeting held on Thursday, March 25, Auditor Karlin Breshears explained the CIC software server for the Saline County Courthouse has been down since last Tuesday, March 16. […] Northern Commissioner Stephanie Gooden estimated there are 11-15 counties CIC provides services to. “They have municipalities and school…
IL: Alton confirms ‘data incident’ in early March
Dylan Suttles reports: City officials are acknowledging a data breach occurred earlier this month. Alton Mayor Brant Walker on Tuesday confirmed that what he described as a “data incident” happened on March 5. Walker said the city immediately took steps to secure all of the city’s information networks. Read more on The Telegraph. There is…