KSAT reports: On March 5, 2019 someone attempted to steal nearly half a million dollars from the sleepy San Antonio suburb of Hollywood Park. The thieves were likely international cyber-criminals, but 17-months later, no one has been arrested for the crime. With the help of the United States Secret Service, the town managed to recover…
Category: Government Sector
Germany’s military-run transport fleet hacked
DW reports: Germany’s Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet, reported the Sunday newspaper BamS (Bild am Sonntag). “Last week, there was an attack on the company’s IT network by an as yet unidentified external party,” Germany’s defense ministry added on Saturday. Read more on…
Thousands of CRA accounts breached following pair of cyberattacks
CBC News reports: The federal government has revealed that the Canada Revenue Agency was recently hit by two cyberattacks, compromising thousands of accounts linked to the agency’s services. The agency confirmed on Saturday that as of Aug. 14, about 5,500 accounts had been affected by the separate attacks but that the breaches are now contained. The CRA’s My…
Aarogya Setu vulnerable? Drama over data firm’s contention
Binayak Dasgupta reports: A cyber security firm said on Wednesday that it stumbled upon large parts of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s code and back-end components that could jeopardise the privacy of 150 million users after a government website appeared to have inadvertently uploaded log-in credentials used by the developers, triggering a war of words…
UK: Plymouth Passport Office’s pitiful password privacy
A blog post by Graham Cluley really resonated here this week. It begins: The Plymouth Herald reports on what appears to be an easy-to-avoid gaffe. An eagle-eyed passer-by spotted a password on clear display at Her Majesty’s Passport Office in Ebrington Street, scrawled on a flipchart leaning against an upper window. The paper contacted the UK Home Office,…
Argentina exposes COVID-19 health data in error
Another elastic search instance, it seems. Tim Sandle reports: Argentina’s health officials have apparently exposed personal medical data relating to some 115,000 COVID-19 quarantine exemption applicants, in what represents a major health sector data breach. Read more on Digital Journal.