Charlie Osborne reports on one of those cases where a data breach results in such a serious risk of harm or trouble that people have to move or significantly change their lives: As reported by the Hackney Gazette, a family in the area adopted a child and the details of who they were and where…
Category: Government Sector
Bulgaria Police Zeroed In Some Data Breach Suspects
Al Restar reports: The Bulgarian police are investigating last week’s attack on the country’s tax systems. The suspect — who’s already in custody — is a member of the same hacking group that carried out the country’s most significant data breach in history. Police said that one senior officer in the cybersecurity firm Tad Group…
Gov. Edwards Activates State Resources to Assist With Ongoing Cybersecurity Incident
A very unusual — and serious response to a threat to government cybersecurity. Thanks to Doug Levin @k12cybermap for pointing us to this press release: July 24 — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a state-wide Emergency Declaration in response to an ongoing cybersecurity incident that is affecting several local government agencies. The declaration makes…
AU: ‘Serious breach’: Real identities of Gobbo handlers sent to lawyers of underworld clients
Some breaches can put lives at risk. Chris Vedelago, Tammy Mills and Cameron Houston report: The real identities of Nicola Gobbo’s handlers have been accidentally sent to the lawyers of her former underworld clients by the royal commission that is investigating her role as a police informer. Protecting the names of the covert operatives from…
IOM: Manx government loses home care residents’ personal data
BBC reports: Personal information belonging to dozens of vulnerable people receiving government-funded home care on the Isle of Man has been lost. Paper records of phone numbers, names and addresses of 33 adults had been “mislaid”, the Department of Health and Social Care admitted. Codes to access the keys to seven people’s homes were also…
GA: Henry County networks still offline five days after malware attack
Leon Stafford reports: Henry County’s computer system remained down early Monday, five days after malware is suspected to have been planted in the south metro community’s network. Websites for various departments such as state court, tax assessor and board of commissioners continued Monday to be inaccessible. Public safety such as police and fire were not…