Shane Ross of CBC reports: Saint John has shut down its online system used to pay parking tickets after discovering a data breach that could have exposed customer names, addresses and credit card information. […] The city uses a third-party software product called Click2Gov from its service provider, CentralSquare Technologies, to provide customers with the…
Category: Government Sector
California Department of Consumer Affairs suffers malware attack
Vincent Moleski reports: The California Department of Consumer Affairs suffered a malware attack Wednesday morning, affecting workstations and disrupting computer networks. Veronica Harms, the department’s deputy director, said in a prepared statement that all services to the public remained open, but the department had shut down some of its computer information network to protect electronic…
NASA discloses data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) admitted today to getting hacked earlier this year. In an internal memo sent to all employees, the agency said that an unknown intruder gained access to one of its servers storing the personal data of current and former employees. Social Security numbers were also compromised, NASA…
Almost four dozen Click2Gov breaches later and almost 300,000 affected; data showing up on dark web – report
Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Yet, that’s what happened in dozens of towns across the U.S. where cyber crooks have made off with the personal data…
IE: Health body apologizes for email gaffe exposing email addresses of 200 job applicants
A statutory health body has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of unsuccessful applicants to a job were mistakenly shared. In an email informing individuals that their application had been unsuccessful, the email addresses of about 200 other applicants were shared. The email, seen by TheJournal.ie, was sent by the Pre-Hospital Emergency…
MN: Wright County finally notifying residents of data breach due to employee transferring data to his home computer
Courtney Godfrey reports: Taking work home with you sounds like something a hardworking employee would do, unless that work includes private, sensitive data like it did with one employee in Wright County. The county knew about the data breach for seven months before notifying possible victims. It wasn’t until FOX 9 filed a public records…