Tony Doris reports: The Riviera Beach City Council has authorized the city’s insurer to pay nearly $600,000 worth of ransom to regain access to data walled off through an attack on the city’s computer systems. In a meeting Monday night announced only days before, the board voted 5-0 to authorize the city insurer to pay…
Category: Government Sector
Parliament chiefs investigate claims its website was hacked amid fears of confidential data breach
Matt Dathan reports: The site containing bills currently before Parliament was showing private folders not meant for publication. One Twitter user said they had found passwords had leaked online too. A Parliamentary spokesman said it was looking into the reports but said it had not found any evidence that confidential parliamentary data had been breached….
Ca: Town of Oliver notifies residents of privacy breach
Colin Dacre reports: The Town of Oliver is advising residents about a privacy breach after municipal staff accidentally sent out private tax information to three email addresses. “During the process of email notification to property owners of their 2019 property tax notice, an error was made in which the attachments on emails to three individual…
A computer virus has thrown Philadelphia’s court system into chaos
Colin Lecher reports: Since May 21st, a virus has shut down Philadelphia’s online court system, bringing network access to a standstill. The problems started unexpectedly: suddenly, no one could seem to access the system to file documents. “It wasn’t working,” says Rachel Gallegos, a senior staff attorney with the civil legal aid organization Community Legal…
FL: ‘Triple Threat’ Ransomware Attack Cripples Email Systems and Services of Lake City
Cyware reports: The Lake City Police Department is investigating a ransomware attack on their city network systems that resulted in the shutdown of several emergency services. The ransomware used in the attack has been detected as ‘Triple Threat’. What happened? In a breach notification, the Lake City police have revealed that the attack occurred on…
DPP employee who had ‘a nosey’ in murder file gets 11 month sentence
Tom Tuite reports: A civil servant in the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been been given an 11-month sentence for disclosing sensitive information about the arrest of a suspect in a dissident republican murder case. Service officer Jonathan Lennon (35) from Clonee, Dublin 15, who admitted having a “nosey” in the…