David Migoya reports: Colorado House Republican leaders on Monday called for an investigation into why Colorado’s higher education agency allegedly failed to timely report a massive data breach this summer. In a two-page letter hand-delivered to Gov. Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, five state representatives also urged an inquiry into why thousands potentially…
Category: Government Sector
The U.S. And Its Allies Are Pledging Never To Pay Hacker Ransoms
Eric Geller reports: The Biden administration and dozens of foreign allies will pledge this week never to pay ransoms to hackers who lock up their national governments’ computer systems, hoping to discourage financially motivated cyber criminals from seeing those systems as attractive ransomware targets. The joint promise will occur as part of the third annual…
Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
Ari Natter reports: A Russian-speaking hacking group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice as part of the sprawling MOVEit hack last summer, according to a report on the wide-ranging attack obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The report, by the US…
India’s Biggest Data Leak So Far? Covid-19 Test Info of 81.5Cr Citizens With ICMR Up for Sale
Ankur Sharma reports: In what is suspected to be the biggest data leak case in the country so far, details of 81.5 crore Indians with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) are on sale. Given the grave nature of the incident, India’s premier agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to probe the…
Indian govt’s insistence that Aadhaar is secure rings hollow in wake of breaches
Joel R. McConvey reports: India is bleeding biometric information, with new data breaches giving credence to a recent report by the credit rating agency Moody’s warning that Aadhaar’s centralized biometric digital ID system has privacy and security vulnerabilities. A piece in Security Affairs reports that earlier this month, the cybersecurity firm Resecurity found hundreds of millions of records containing…
Orange County’s DA’s Office experiences data breach
Jaz Mendez reports: Hackers broke into the Orange County District Attorney’s office’s information technology system last week, the DA’s office announced Monday. The office did not specify whether any information was compromised, but said in a press release that it took “immediate action” to shut down its cybersecurity infrastructure as soon as it learned of…