WCED News reports: People associated with Clearfield County and the Clearfield County Courthouse could have been affected by a cyber attack on the county’s computer network in January. The county has sent out written notification letters to anyone who might have been affected by the data breach. That letter also includes steps that you might…
Category: Government Sector
AO: Ministry of Finance suffers cyber attack
Translation of Portuguese article: The technological platform to support the activities of the Ministry of Finance, with access to emails and shared folders, was the target of a cyber attack on Thursday, with unidentified origins and motivations, according to a statement from the institution. Despite the situation, it reassures that salary processing services and revenue…
Hackers have eye on 6 Bangladeshi organisations
Mehedi Hasan reports: Kasablanca, a hacker group, has targeted cyberattacks on at least six well-known Bangladeshi financial and government organisations, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (e-Gov CIRT), the state organisation responsible for securing the country’s cyberspace. The organisations are Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, bKash, BRAC Bank, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Corona.gov.bd. The reason…
UK: Council apologizes for free school meals payment data breach
Email gaffes are still a thing, too. Kevin O’Sullivan reports: A Scottish local authority has apologised for a data breach after sending details of 600 free school meals claimants to ‘multiple’ email accounts. Scottish Borders council sent out the email in an IT blunder as it tried to contact 1,300 residents to inform them of…
Ca: Saint John won’t pay ransom to hackers, city manager says
Julia Wright of CBC reports: The city of Saint John has no plans to pay hackers a ransom after its network was attacked three months ago. In his regular update to common council Monday, city manager John Collin said the city had a backup system in place and “the vast majority” of the data has…
Transport for NSW confirms data taken in Accellion breach
Aras Barbaschow reports: Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) has confirmed being impacted by a cyber attack on a file transfer system owned by Accellion. Read more on ZDNet.