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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
UK: Recent enforcement actions by the ICO deal with employees behaving badly
From the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK, news about two cases involving employees behaving badly. One case involved a housing association employee snooping in records without justification, and the other involved a Restorative Justice Caseworker who sent personal data on victims and offenders to her home email address. A former customer services officer at…
The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret
Alberto Nardelli reports: The European Union’s embassy in Moscow was hacked and had information stolen from its network, according to a leaked internal document seen by BuzzFeed News. An ongoing “sophisticated cyber espionage event” was discovered in April, just weeks before the European Parliament elections — but the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s…