How many monetary penalties will it take before the Crown Prosecution Service gets its data protection act together and does a reasonable job of protecting victim-related information?This is the second monetary penalty they’ve been hit with in the past few years: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the ICO after they…
Category: Government Sector
Police Dept Loses 10 Months of Work to Ransomware. Gets Infected a Second Time!
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ransomware has infected the servers of the Riverside Fire and Police department for the second time in a month. The first ransomware infection took place on April 23, last month and encrypted ten months worth of work data related to active investigations. Officials said they didn’t pay the ransom and were able…
Ohio man charged in August, 2017 DDoS attacks on akronohio.gov and akroncops.org
Eric Heisig reports: An Akron man aligned with the online hacking collective Anonymous was arrested Thursday for launching cyberattacks on websites for the city of Akron and its police department, according to the FBI. James Robinson, 32, admitted he was responsible for the attacks on the Akron websites akronohio.gov and akroncops.org between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5,…
OPM Data Breach Plaintiffs, in Bid to Revive Case, Say Trial Judge ‘Wrongly Sidestepped’ Precedent
Amanda Bronstad reports: Plaintiffs suing over a 2014 data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management—which may have compromised information for 21.5 million persons—have asked a federal appeals court to revive their cases, citing a significant decision last year finding standing to sue over a cyberattack. Plaintiffs filed opening briefs before the U.S. Court of Appeals…
NY: 50 case files from Dept. of Social Services may have been exposed to data breach
Danny Spewak reports: Fifty case files with sensitive information about Erie County constituents were potentially exposed to the public during two separate instances in 2017, according to a letter sent this week from the Department of Social Services to the county legislature. […] A total of 37 Adult Protective Services case files were found in…
Ca: Wasaga Pays Ransom for Town Data
Mariane McLeod reports: Wasaga Beach has paid part of the ransom to hackers who took over the town’s computer system earlier this month. The computer ransomware attack started Sunday, April 29th. Staff discovered they couldn’t access town data when the arrived on Monday. Read more on Bayshore Broadcasting.