Katie Sullivan Borrelli reports: Broome County says an unauthorized individual may have had access to the personal information of county employees and individuals who receive the county’s care, including their Social Security numbers, medical records and bank account information. In a news release sent on its behalf by Mullen Coughlin LLC, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, the…
Category: Government Sector
Cyber attack could keep county servers down for days
Luzerne County’s administration has shut down some computer servers and work stations to address a cyber attack discovered last weekend, officials said. On Wednesday morning, county Administrative Services Division Head David Parsnik said the clean-up process may take several days to complete. By the afternoon, the administration sent workers an email indicating the servers may…
Google disables Baltimore’s Gmail accounts used during ransomware recovery over mistaken security concern
Ian Duncan reports on how your emergency backup might fail for reasons you didn’t anticipate, perhaps. Gmail accounts used by Baltimore officials as a workaround while the city recovers from a ransomware attack were disabled because the creation of a large number of new accounts in one place triggered Google’s automated security system, a spokesman…
Ca: Some Brampton Residents Affected by Serious Privacy Breach
Rajpreet Sahota reports: Some Brampton residents have had their private information leaked in the wake of a privacy breach, the Region of Peel says. The Region of Peel announced that there was a breach of personal information on June 8, 2018. On March 13, the personal information of approximately 13,000 individuals on a wait list for Regional services…
UK: Cyber attack on Sunderland City Council database: Investigation after personal data accessed by hackers
Ross Robertson reports: Hackers have accessed users’ personal details in a cyber attack on Sunderland City Council’s library database. Council chiefs are warning users to be vigilant after a number of customers’ details were accessed during a cyber incident involving the library services customer database. This resulted in the unauthorised access to the details of…
Oregon Construction Contractors Board reports data breach
KTVZ reports: The Oregon Construction Contractors Board said Friday it has discovered a security breach involving 8,013 online contractor accounts. Unauthorized individuals gained access to some contractors’ usernames and related password information. The incident occurred between Oct. 27 and Oct. 29, 2018, and was discovered on April 12, 2019, during a routine audit conducted by…