Phil Pennington reports: The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has admitted to a technology botch up leaving what was meant to be a highly secure data key wide open. “The transport agency can confirm the Google API was incorrectly left open as part of the Traffic Watcher pre-production set up,” NZTA said in statement. Read…
Category: Government Sector
Oklahoma pension fund reports $4.2 million cyber theft
AP reports: The FBI is investigating after computer hackers managed to steal about $4.2 million in funds from a pension system for retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and other state law enforcement officers, state officials said Friday. A notice posted on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System website said the agency notified the FBI and…
Unalaska recovers $2.3M after phishing email scam
Hope McKenney reports: More than $2.3 million dollars has been returned to the City of Unalaska, after a nearly two-month federal investigation into a fraudulent financial request. Between May 15 and July 9, the city paid out $2,985,406.10 to a fraudulent bank account as a result of a phishing email scam. The sender of the…
No municipality paid ransoms in ‘coordinated ransomware attack’ that hit Texas
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A coordinated ransomware attack hit 22 Texas local governments, but none of the impacted municipalities paid ransom demands, Texas state officials said this week. Three weeks after the incident took place, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) said that more than half of the impacted entities are now back to operations…
MN: Metro Mobility notifies 15,000 customers of data breach that may have exposed personal information
Chris Serres reports: A data breach at Metro Mobility, the Twin Cities transit service for people with disabilities, may have exposed the personal information of up to 15,000 individuals who use it. Metro Mobility has notified customers that an employee’s e-mail account was hacked by an unauthorized person, compromising personal ride information between June 13…
Two men accused of harassing NJ police officers by posting hacked personal info online
Joshua Jongsma reports: Two New York men hacked the personal information of 50 North Jersey public employees, mostly police officers, and posted much of it online, authorities said. Evan Koulikov, 21, of Spring Valley, New York also made harassing phone calls to many of the victims, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Eric Williams,…