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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
PH: Locsin says ‘pissed’ contractor ‘took all’ passport data
Updated January 15: Locsin subsequently clarified his claim and said that no data had been removed or stolen, but had been made inaccessible. See this report. Original post: Katrina Domingo reports: MANILA – Some Filipinos renewing their passports may have to present their birth certificates as an additional requirement after a passport production contractor the…
How a Russian firm helped catch an alleged NSA data thief
Fascinating reporting by Kim Zetter on Politico. The 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began with an unlikely source: a tip from a Russian cybersecurity firm that the U.S. government has called a threat to the country. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab turned Harold T. Martin…