Ted Booker reports: Sue Burnett was among more than 500 St. Joseph County employees who received letters in October from a state agency saying their Social Security numbers were breached. In the letter, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development informed Burnett that wage records from Indiana employers were found on Aug. 10 by a member…
Category: Government Sector
Indio Water Authority notifies residents of Click2Gov breach
In reviewing the Click2Gov breaches, I just discovered another one from October that I hadn’t posted on this site. Let’s remedy that now. Statement on Click2Gov Data Security Incident INDIO, CA (October 12, 2018) – Indio Water Authority (IWA) was informed in September of a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting the credit card information of customers…
IA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s Click2Gov, again.
The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers who paid a city-issued ticket on the city’s online payment system between Aug. 10 and Nov. 19, city officials said Friday in a news release. […]…
900+ residents’ information compromised in Town of Christiansburg data security breach
WDBJ in Virginia reports: The town of Christiansburg is offering free credit monitoring to more than 900 people after their information was compromised in a phishing scam. The scam targeted email accounts of three town employees which contained personally identifiable information from some members of the public, the town said in a news release. There…
Singapore State Courts’ digital files accessed illegally due to system loophole
Eileen Yu reports: Singapore’s State Courts has revealed that several digital documents have been accessed without proper authorisation due to a loophole in a filing system. The Integrated Criminal Case Filing and Management System (ICMS) was used in court for criminal proceedings and to support an Accused Person online portal. The portal could be accessed…
OPM to Rebid Identity Theft Protection Contract Affecting Millions of Hack Victims
Eric Katz reports: Millions of current and former federal employees could soon have a new company providing them with credit monitoring and identity theft protections, as the Office of Personnel Management plans to rebid a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The current contract, which OPM signed with ID Experts in the wake of…