Curt Devine and Drew Griffin report: Georgia’s shotgun-toting, Trump-style Republican candidate for governor Brian Kemp has sought to assure voters that his state’s election system is secure and that any allegations to the contrary are “fake news.” But Kemp, who is also the secretary of state in charge of Georgia’s elections, is now being accused…
Category: Government Sector
Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk Confirms Data Breach
NewsChannel5 reports: The Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk confirmed a breach involving personal information. The clerk’s office said Monday that private citizens’ Social Security Numbers were “inappropriately” included on some criminal affidavits attached to public arrest warrants. Read more on NewsChannel5.
WI: Adams County data breach exposed personal information of 258,120 people
From the yeah-this-isn’t-good dept. Caitlin Shuda reports: A data breach exposed the names, addresses, personal information and even photographs of more than 250,000 people with information on Adams County computer systems. Officials in a statement on Friday said they do not have evidence that personal data was stolen, but urged those affected by the breach…
MN: Cyberattackers successfully phish numerous Hennepin County workers’ e-mails
Andy Mannix reports: Cyberattackers have infiltrated e-mail accounts for about 20 Hennepin County employees since late June, and may have accessed the private information of people who rely on the county’s services, county officials revealed Thursday. Using e-mails disguised as pay-raise notifications, a sophisticated phishing scam duped the employees into giving up their login information,…
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
Devin Coldewey reports: The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place, after a report from its inspector general found a lack of evidence supporting the idea. Chairman Ajit Pai blamed the former chief information officer and the Obama administration for providing…
Washington County report traces path of leaked information
CJ Lovelace reports: A document alleging sexual harassment by a Washington County commissioner was leaked to the father of a local TV news reporter, leading to a 2017 news report about it, according to a county investigative report released Thursday. The report, which was completed a year ago, says 10 county employees were interviewed about…