DOVER (Nov. 15, 2020) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is announcing today that it is mailing letters to individuals who were impacted by a recent data breach incident and is providing information to the public regarding the incident. On September 16, 2020, the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) discovered that…
Category: Government Sector
How hackers collected sensitive data from the Land Transportation Office
Earlier this week, I noted a probe of a data leak involving the Land Transportation Office in Manila. There’s more reported today. Art Samaniego reports: The country’s transportation agency is now on a hot seat as thousands of personal information of drivers and vehicle owners were processed and saved by a website pretending to be…
Three voters demand €10m fine for IT firm behind huge data breach
Claudia Calleja has an update on litigation following a voter data leak involving C-Planet IT Solutions Ltd. Three of the 337,384 Maltese voters whose data was leaked in a massive security breach in April, have filed a complaint with the Data Protection Authority requesting that the IT company that held the data be fined up…
Pell City notifies residents of vendor breach
On September 20, this site noted a breach impacting some residents of Pell City, Alabama. At that time, there were many unanswered questions based on the little the city had disclosed. Now they have published a press release that reveals that the breach involved their vendor, Technology Management Resources (TMR). The TMR breach had been…
GA: JIA sends notices to those potentially affected by ransomware attack
Lauren McDonald reports: Jekyll Island Authority has sent notices to individuals whose data may have been compromised in a recent ransomware attack. The hackers could have had access to data affecting more than 7,000 individuals and companies who do business with the authority, according to a post on JIA’s website offering an update on the…
Privacy Commission probes suspected LTO data leak
Melissa Luz Lopez reports: The National Privacy Commission is investigating a suspected data leak involving car registrations under the Land Transportation Office. In a statement, the privacy body said it is looking into the data available on lisensya.info, which has a “Motor Vehicle Authenticator” that reveals the car make, plate and engine number, registration expiry date,…