Ben Butler reports: The federal court has launched a snap investigation of how it potentially broke the law an estimated 400 times by revealing the names of asylum seekers on a public website. John McMillan, a senior lawyer, former commonwealth ombudsman, privacy commissioner and inspector general of intelligence, is conducting a review into how the…
Category: Government Sector
Texas Says Court System Was Subject to Ransomware Attack
Tina Davis reports: Texas said its court system has been hit by a ransomware attack. The state said the attack was discovered Friday and that it’s not going to paying ransom. The Office of Court Administration said that filings and research are still available and there was no indication any personal information was compromised.The “branch…
US Marshals says prisoners’ personal information taken in data breach (updated)
Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at the U.S. Marshals Service exposed the personal information of current and former prisoners, TechCrunch has learned. A letter sent to those affected, and obtained by TechCrunch, said the Justice Department notified the U.S. Marshals on December 30, 2019 of a data breach affecting a public-facing server storing personal…
Russian Hackers Accessed Emails From Merkel’s Constituency Office: Der Spiegel
Reuters reports: Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. Read more on Reuters.
Aarogya Setu: The story of a failure
Elliot Alderson (pseudonym) writes: In order to fight Covid19, the Indian government released a mobile contact tracing application called Aarogya Setu. This application is available on the PlayStore and 90 million Indians already installed it. This application is currently getting a lot of attention in India. In Noida, if people doesn’t have the app installed…
Leak Of Pune Municipal Corporation Data Spreads Personal Details Of Patients Over Social Media
Prachee Kulkarni reports: Names, locations, contact numbers, medical history — it’s all part of the Google Maps link created by Smart City officials, which was accessed by the public. Civic officials surprisingly casual about breach, say they will ‘consider’ going to the cops Read more on Pune Mirror.