Leo Laikola reports: Finland’s parliament was the target of a cyber attack during the autumn that compromised the security of an unspecified number of politicians’ email accounts, parliament’s information office said Monday. Read more on Bloomberg.
Category: Government Sector
Scottish Environment Protection Agency targeted in cyberattack
PA Media reports: The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has been targeted in a cyberattack. […] “The attack is impacting our contact centre, internal systems, processes and internal communications. “We immediately enacted our robust business continuity arrangements, with our core regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services adapting and continuing to operate. Read more on…
Data breach discovered in Jerusalem Municipality website
The Jerusalem Post reports: A breach granting access to documents containing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of residents was found and repaired in the Jerusalem Municipality’s website, the tech website Geektime reported on Wednesday. The breach was discovered by Hezkiyahu Raful, a programmer, while he was trying to help his uncle file an…
Cyberattack on the website of the European Court of Human Rights
Following the delivery of the Selahattin Demirtas v. Turkey (No. 2) judgment on December 22, the website of the European Court of Human Rights was the subject of a large-scale cyberattack which has made it temporarily inaccessible. The Court strongly deplores this serious incident. The competent services are currently making every effort to remedy the…
One year later, Saskatchewan government still isn’t sure what data were exfiltrated in cyberattack
Back in June, Canadian news outlets provided an update on a ransomware attack on Saskatchewan’s eHealth system that had occurred on December 20, 2019. Now as the year draws to a close, the government still doesn’t know whether personal information was compromised in the attack. And no, this is not uncommon. It is often very…
KY: Jefferson County PVA office hit by ransomware attack
Chris Otts reports: The Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator‘s office has been hit by a ransomware attack, in which hackers are holding the agency’s data hostage for payment, PVA Colleen Younger said in an interview Monday. Younger told WDRB that the agency learned of the attack on Wednesday and had closed its office — where…