Medolenuo Ambrocia reports: Kohima: A major data breach in the government of Nagaland website to help citizens stranded outside the state has led to personal details of these individuals being exposed. Personal information including bank account details, AADHAAR number, phone numbers, address etc have been leaked into the public domain. This is serious as this private…
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(Updated): DoppelPaymer ransomware attackers claim to have attacked Torrance, California
The DoppleLeaks site where DoppelPaymer ransomware attackers list victims who have not paid their ransom demands was updated this afternoon to includeTorrance, California as a victim. There is nothing on Torrance’s web site about any attack and the city’s social media team did not reply immediately to an inquiry from DataBreaches.net has asking them if…
Teenage hacker arrested in Madrid for hacking medical data and leaking information on a politician positive for COVID-19
Dimitris Kouimtsidis reports: A 16-year-old hacker has been arrested for hacking medical data and then leaking information about a politician who was positive with coronavirus. Agents from the Technological Investigation Unit of the Policia Nacional arrested the teenager in Madrid. He had managed to hack into the servers of the Madrid health service and obtain…
Ransomware attack temporarily knocks out Olean city systems
Bob Clark reports: Another virus has crippled city operations — this one of the digital kind. On Friday morning, city officials announced that the management information department detected and stopped a computer virus attack on the city’s computers before the opening of business. “All I can tell you is it was ransomware discovered early in…
Oakland County stops COVID-19 data leak
Orion Sang reports: Oakland County secured a data leakage of internal COVID-19 data that was used by the Oakland County Health Division for public health analysis. The leakage originated on Tuesday night and was stopped Wednesday morning. […] The data that was leaked was “of a non-public map that was unintentionally marked as public during…
New York State Investigates Network Hack
Scott Ferguson reports: In January, hackers compromised portions of the New York state government’s computer network by taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Citrix enterprise software, according to the Wall Street Journal. While the New York State Office of Information Technology Services discovered the hacking incident on Jan. 28, officials did not disclose the breach…