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…
Category: Government Sector
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,…
It: Gaiba municipality central server hacked
The following is a Google translation: The Municipality of Gaiba informs all interested parties (residents and non-residents) that on the night of 6.11.2020 it was the subject of a cyber attack that violated the personal data on the central server. The Authority has promptly activated and is proceeding to notify the data breach to the…
Val-de-Marne: Alfortville town hall paralyzed by a computer attack
archyde reports: The municipal computers were suddenly paralyzed Wednesday evening: “a general plantade”, in the words of the mayor PS of Alfortville (Val-de-Marne), Luc Carvounas. Its town hall was the target of a cyber attack by “ransomware”, that is to say that the hackers managed to enter the computer system and to exfiltrate, before encrypting…