From the county’s notice, which you can find in its entirety here: Hanover County was recently notified about potential unauthorized charges on credit cards used by customers to pay their utility bills via the website between August 1, 2018 and January 9, 2019. The County takes the security and protection of its customers’ confidential information…
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PH: Updated claims: No passport data loss, breach
Roy Mabasa and PNA report: Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday backpedaled from his earlier allegations that French contractor Oberthur reportedly ran away with the data of millions of passport applicants when its contract was abruptly terminated by the Philippine government in 2013. “Data is not run-away-able but made inaccessible. Access denied,” Locsin…
WI: Criminals may have stolen personal info from thousands after hacking Kewaskum Police computer
Julia Fello reports: Criminals may have stolen thousands of people’s sensitive information from a hacked computer inside the Kewaskum Police Department. In a village with a population of just 4,000 Kewaskum Police Chief Thomas Bishop mailed 2,720 letters to potential victims. Most of the potential victims are from Colorado and the Chicagoland area. […] This…
U.S. authorities charge several people in SEC hacking scheme
Jonathan Stempel reports: U.S. authorities on Tuesday charged several individuals and companies in a scheme to trade on information in nonpublic corporate press releases by hacking into a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission database. In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, the SEC said individuals in the United States, Russia…
TX: Del Rio City Hall Forced to Use Paper After Ransomware Attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, which led to multiple computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware. Victoria Vargas Public Relations Manager for Del Rio’s City Hall told BleepingComputer that around 30 to 45 computers were turned…
NASA internal app leaked employee emails, project names
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A NASA web app leaked details such as employee usernames, names, email addresses, and project names, ZDNet has learned today from bug hunter Avinash Jain. The exposure originated from one of NASA’s Jira installations, a web app that most companies use for tracking projects or internal bugs and issues. In a report…