Cliff Williams reports: Operations are slowly returning to normal after a weekend ransomware attack on servers at the Tallapoosa County Probate Office. Tallapoosa County probate Judge Talmadge East said no data or personal information was compromised in the Sunday morning attack and servers are allowing new business to be conducted. Read more on The Outlook.
Category: Government Sector
Ministry still tracing cause of Indonesia’s COVID-19 patient data leak
Antara News reports an update to a breach that first came to light when a data broker listed the data for sale on RaidForums. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) currently continues to trace the reason behind the alleged hacking of a database containing information of the country’s COVID-19 patients that was circulated in…
Deloitte Consulting sued in two states over unemployment portal data security issues
Last month we started seeing reports of data leaks or breaches involving state unemployment benefits application portals. We also started seeing reports of lawsuits filed as a result. Ben Szalinski reports that in Illinois, one of the nearly 32,500 applicants who had private information exposed said it was used to access her bank account. Briana…
Defense analyst sentenced to prison for media leaks
A former counterterrorism analyst who leaked classified information to two journalists, including one he was dating, has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Thursday. Henry Kyle Frese was employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2018 and 2019. Prosecutors said he shared…
China launches cyber attacks on government websites and banks following India massacre
Grace Macrae reports: China has opened another front against India with sustained cyber attacks targeting government websites and banking systems. The Chinese DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks have targeted information websites and the country’s financial payments system. DDOS attacks are malicious attempts to overwhelm a network by flooding it with artificially created internet traffic….
OR: Keizer city computers hacked and ransomed for $48,000
Eric A. Howald reports: The city of Keizer’s computer system was hacked on Wednesday, June 10, and officials were only able to regain access to the data by paying the perpetrators a $48,000 ransom. At this point, no sensitive data appears to have been accessed or misused. Read more on The Keizer Times.