Gene Myers reports that not only does the township not have answers, they are fighting and resigning over who is being included in the security investigation: No new information has been released two weeks after the Thanksgiving Day cyber attack against the police department’s computer system.The lack of answers has angered township leaders who accused the…
Category: Government Sector
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner releases annual report
Stuff reports on a case in New Zealand that was cited in a newly-released annual report by the Privacy Commissioner. Disturbingly, the unnamed government agency not only did not set a great example for data protection, but they demonstrated less than admirable response to the incident of insider-wrongdoing that harmed a member of the public….
More than 500 St. Joseph County employees were affected by wage record breach
Ted Booker reports: Sue Burnett was among more than 500 St. Joseph County employees who received letters in October from a state agency saying their Social Security numbers were breached. In the letter, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development informed Burnett that wage records from Indiana employers were found on Aug. 10 by a member…
Indio Water Authority notifies residents of Click2Gov breach
In reviewing the Click2Gov breaches, I just discovered another one from October that I hadn’t posted on this site. Let’s remedy that now. Statement on Click2Gov Data Security Incident INDIO, CA (October 12, 2018) – Indio Water Authority (IWA) was informed in September of a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting the credit card information of customers…
IA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s Click2Gov, again.
The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers who paid a city-issued ticket on the city’s online payment system between Aug. 10 and Nov. 19, city officials said Friday in a news release. […]…
900+ residents’ information compromised in Town of Christiansburg data security breach
WDBJ in Virginia reports: The town of Christiansburg is offering free credit monitoring to more than 900 people after their information was compromised in a phishing scam. The scam targeted email accounts of three town employees which contained personally identifiable information from some members of the public, the town said in a news release. There…