Sierra Rehm reports: Butler Couty is notifying the public of a data security incident where someone gained access to personally identifiable information. The county said federal authorities alerted them to suspicious activity on its computer network at the start of October. By the end of October, it determined there was unauthorized access to personally identifiable…
Category: Government Sector
Town of Iowa in Louisiana victim of ransomware attack: ALPHV publishes a portion of the exfiltrated documents
Marco A. De Felice reports: The ransomware group ALPHV (BlackCat) has published a first part of exfiltrated data from the Town of Iowa in the state of Louisiana. Approximately 250 scanned documents in PDF format have been released, some of which contain visible Social Security numbers (SSNs) of employees, employee salaries, balance sheets, birthdates, addresses,…
Colorado GOP Wants Inquiry into Delayed Notification of Data Breach
David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…
The U.S. And Its Allies Are Pledging Never To Pay Hacker Ransoms
Eric Geller reports: The Biden administration and dozens of foreign allies will pledge this week never to pay ransoms to hackers who lock up their national governments’ computer systems, hoping to discourage financially motivated cyber criminals from seeing those systems as attractive ransomware targets. The joint promise will occur as part of the third annual…
Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
Ari Natter reports: A Russian-speaking hacking group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice as part of the sprawling MOVEit hack last summer, according to a report on the wide-ranging attack obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The report, by the US…
India’s Biggest Data Leak So Far? Covid-19 Test Info of 81.5Cr Citizens With ICMR Up for Sale
Ankur Sharma reports: In what is suspected to be the biggest data leak case in the country so far, details of 81.5 crore Indians with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are on sale. Given the grave nature of the incident, India’s premier agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to probe the…