Jijo Jacob reports: The data theft at INS Vikrant, India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC), has taken a national security dimension with reports saying that the espionage angle cannot be ruled out. The theft of computer hard discs, random access memory (RAM) and processor from the ship, which is being built at the Cochin Shipyard…
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Former Brownsville fire chief found not guilty on security breach charges
Martha Ibarra reports an update to a case previously reported on this site: Carlos Elizondo, Brownsville’s former fire chief, has been found not guilty on six counts of computer security breach. In October of 2017, Carlos Elizondo was suspended after he was accused of assessing the emergency reporting system for Brownsville fire without consent. Read…
Check-in computers stolen in Atlanta hold statewide voter data
Mark Niesse Arielle Kass report: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election. [..] The express poll computers contain names, addresses, birth dates and driver’s license information for every voter in the state, said Richard Barron, Fulton…
Ramsey County data breach may have affected nearly 118,000 people
Shannon Prather reports: Nearly 118,000 people who receive Ramsey County services may have had some personal or health information compromised when hackers breached the county’s e-mail system in August 2018. County officials had initially said more than 500 people were affected last winter, but officials dramatically increased that number Tuesday after hiring an outside data…
Recidivist Hacker Sentenced for Violating Supervised Release Conditions
Cape Cod Today staff report: A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions. Cameron Lacroix, 30, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf to 15 months in prison, to be…
Database leaks data on most of Ecuador’s citizens, including 6.7 million children
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…