Bismee Taskin reports: Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data leakage case reported two months ago, the four have been booked in a separate case of “data brokering”, ThePrint has learnt. As reported by ThePrint earlier, police had initially suspected the accused of trying…
Category: Government Sector
Clay County, Minnesota discloses ransomware attack in October
On December 22, Clay County published a notice on its website about a ransomware attack in October. According to its notice, on October 27, 2023, the county determined that its network had been impacted by a ransomware attack between October 23 and 26. The attack affected the electronic document management system (“CaseWorks”) hosted by Clay…
Statement of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility Regarding November 2023 Data Security Incident
On November 2, 2023, we discovered that a virus had impacted the Facility’s computer systems. We quickly took steps to minimize its impact, took other necessary actions to protect the Facility’s systems, and have been investigating the matter. We have been working with a forensic security consultant to identify the nature and scope of the…
MoD fined £350k over data breach that endangered lives of Afghan interpreters
Public Technology reports: The Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 over a data breach that divulged the identities of hundreds of Afghan nationals who worked for the UK government in Afghanistan. According to data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office, the incident allowed 245 recipients of an email about the evacuation of eligible people to…
Alleged Chinese cyberattacks target US power and water systems
Duncan Riley reports: U.S. government officers and cybersecurity experts are warning that the Chinese military is allegedly attempting to infiltrate critical infrastructure, including power and water utilities and transportation systems in the U.S. The Washington Post reported, referencing unnamed officials and security experts, that hackers allegedly affiliated with China’s People’s Liberation Army have burrowed into the…
The Untold Story of a Massive Hack at HHS in Covid’s Early Days
Jordan Robertson and Riley Griffin report: On March 15, 2020, just days after the US declared a national emergency because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the computer network for the US Department of Health and Human Services briefly vanished from the internet. In public remarks the following day, HHS Secretary Alex Azar attributed the 10-minute outage to a cyberattack but…