Update: As BleepingComputer reports, the AFTS attack appears to be the work of the Cuba ransomware threat actor(s) who claim to have exfiltrated “Financial documents, correspondence with bank employees, account movements, balance sheets, tax documents.” They offer to sell the data on their dedicated leak site on the dark web, but do not list any…
Category: Government Sector
In: Exclusive: Congress puts personal data of thousands of its supporters at risk, massive security loophole found on its website
OpIndia staff report: The recently launched drive by the Congress party to induct a whopping 5 lakhs ‘social media warriors’ to support the party has turned out to be an exercised marred with massive security loopholes. The Congress IT cell seems to have slipped even in employing basic IT security systems in place for this…
BE: Seraing: the City hit by a cyber attack!
DHNet reports (translation): Last weekend, the city of Seraing reported that its services were temporarily inaccessible to the public and for a reason beyond its control. Indeed, since the computer network of the city of Seraing was the victim of a malicious attack! A complaint has been filed. As specified to the city of Seraing,…
Bannock County, Idaho – Notice of Data Security Event
February 11, 2021 – Bannock County, Idaho (“Bannock County”) is providing notice of a data privacy event related to certain individuals associated with Bannock County. Bannock County takes this event seriously and is providing information about the event and steps individuals may take to help protect impacted individuals’ personal information, should they feel it is…
NC: SSA first sends confidential records to the wrong people, then refuses credit monitoring
Nate Morabito reports: Despite mistakenly sending confidential personal records to the wrong people, the Social Security Administration refused to offer free credit monitoring to those whose identities were compromised, but the federal agency appears to now have changed its stance. As we reported Friday, several people from Charlotte confirmed SSA sent their original documents to…
Contractor for USAO Southern District of Iowa Provided Sensitive, Non-Public Info on Criminal Investigations to a Friend; Informants Wound Up “Outed” Online
An Iowa woman pleaded guilty today for unlawfully using a former Department of Justice contractor’s government computer to access government records and to obtain sensitive, non-public law enforcement information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. According to admissions made in connection with her guilty plea, Rachel Manna,…