Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal records of most of Ecuador’s population, including children, has been left exposed online due to a misconfigured database, ZDNet has learned. The database, an Elasticsearch searver, was discovered two weeks ago by vpnMentor security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, who shared their findings exclusively with ZDNet. Together, we worked…
Category: Government Sector
Robstown police evidence, reports lost during data breach
Alexandria Rodriguez reports: A data breach resulted in the loss of Robstown Police Department evidence and reports in pending investigations from 2018 and 2019. The Nueces County District Attorney’s Office announced the breach in a news release Friday afternoon on Facebook. Read more on Caller Times.
Hacker destroys Hungarian Development Center’s digital database
Bhaswati Guha Majumder reports: … In the recent incident, which happened in mid-July the cyberattack was launched targeting Hungarian Development Center (MFK). The data breach was so damaging that the authority was forced to reorganize its administration from scratch. A news site 24.hu reported that the hackers most likely originated from North Korea. Later the…
Irish government admits ransomware breach
John Mooney reports: The Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, which is responsible for protecting the state against cyber-attacks, has admitted its IT systems were breached in a ransomware attack last year. Read more on The Times.
Baltimore acknowledges for first time that data was destroyed in ransomware attack
Ian Duncan reports: Baltimore’s auditor said Wednesday that IT department performance data was lost when hackers locked city files in May — the first disclosure of data being destroyed in the attack. Auditor Josh Pasch told the mayor and other top city officials at a meeting of the city’s spending board that without the data…
Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor
Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems that do not have direct connections…