Mike Vlasveld reports: The City of Ottawa is urging all subscribers who use the same password for multiple accounts to change their passwords. The City of Ottawa is investigating a cyber security incident related to its OC Transpo My Alerts system. It says OC Transpo My Alerts subscribers may have had their email addresses and…
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AZ: Investigators seize devices from Fountain Hills residence in voter data theft case
Jen Fifield and Uriel J. Garcia report: Law enforcement officials served a search warrant at the home of a Fountain Hills man and seized computers, hard drives and other storage devices as part of an investigation into voter data theft from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office website. The property was seized Nov. 5. Read more…
AU: How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people’s data
Lucy Cormack reports: When the personal data of 186,000 people was breached in a phishing attack on Service NSW in March, the weakness cyber criminals were able to exploit was actually paper. Passports, banking and Medicare details were potentially exposed in photocopied and scanned paper documents stored inside the email accounts of 47 Service NSW…
AT: Cyber attack causes chaos in the Braunau town hall
Mario Zeko reports (translation): “The IT servers of the municipality of Braunau am Inn were the target of a hacker attack,” confirmed Mayor Johannes Waidbacher (ÖVP) and city office director Andreas Reiter of the “Krone” yesterday. Who is behind the attack is just as unclear as the details of the crime. “The responsible authorities were informed…
NL: ‘Nightmare’ for the municipality of Hof van Twente: all computer systems down due to a cyber attack
deVolkskrant reports (translated): Municipality of Hof van Twente has fallen victim to a cyber attack. All computer systems of the municipality were shut down by the attack, the data stored on the servers was destroyed. This also includes privacy-sensitive information from residents, according to the municipality. It is unclear who the perpetrators are and what the motive may…
Voter registration data for 113K Alaskans exposed in breach
Mark Thiessen of AP reports: Personal data such as driver’s license numbers and birth dates for tens of thousands of Alaskans was breached in an online voter database, but the state official overseeing elections said Thursday election results were not compromised because the online registration and vote tabulation systems are not connected. “Although some voters’…