Robert Sutcliffe reports: The Information Commissioner is investigating after a cache of confidential police information was discovered by a member of the public in Holmfirth. West Yorkshire Police say they are also looking into the circumstances of how around 50 items were found flapping around on the morning of Saturday, December 22. […] “I began…
Category: Government Sector
LA: City of Lake Charles reports security breach of its information technology systems
Jillian Corder reports: An investigation is underway into reported “unauthorized access” of the city’s information technology systems. A statement from the city of Lake Charles says it is working with independent computer forensics experts. Read more on KPLC -although you won’t learn much more as the city isn’t really saying anything informative about the nature of the breach or details about it. I can’t even find any statement on the city’s web site at this time.
Four months after disclosing breach, Adams County, Wisconsin notifies HHS
Adams County, WI disclosed a breach in August that affected 258,000 and may have been an insider breach. But they only notified HHS/OCR of that breach a few weeks ago. I wonder why. There’s nothing on their site to explain the late notification.
Click2Gov breach in parking payment system in Canada might have exposed personal information
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…
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…