Fionn Hargreaves reports: A schoolboy hacker impersonated a CIA director to gain access to top secret military reports, a court heard yesterday. Kane Gamble was just 15 when he posed as CIA chief John Brennan from his Leicestershire home, even taking control of his wife’s iPad. The teenager gained access to passwords, personal information, security details,…
Category: Government Sector
Florida Department of State notifies 945 of breach involving the last four digits of their SSN
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING INADVERTENT RELEASE OF LIMITED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION DOS providing free credit monitoring services for 945 affected individuals TALLAHASSEE – In January 2013, The Florida Department of State, Division of Elections temporarily participated in a project pilot in an effort to facilitate validation of information between states. In September 2017, the last four digits…
JP: Zushi ordered to pay ¥1.1 mil. damages for information leak that led to murder
Those of you who are old enough to remember the Rebecca Schaeffer murder may see some similarities in this case. Jiji Press reports: A branch of Yokohama District Court on Monday ordered the city of Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, to pay ¥1.1 million in damages for leaking information that led to the murder of a 33-year-old…
NM: City of Farmington recovering after SamSam ransomware attack
More entities are falling prey to SamSam ransomware. Hannah Grover reports: The city of Farmington is returning to normal after a variant of the ransomware known as SamSam shut down the computer systems. The virus encrypts files on a computer network or locks down the entire system. When people attempt to log on, they receive…
‘Professional’ hack on Norwegian health authority compromises data of three million patients
Sooraj Shah reports: Hackers have breached the systems of Norway’s Health South East RHF, with nearly three million patients’ data potentially compromised as a result. Health South-East is responsible for the counties of Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. The breach was announced on Monday by the authority after it had…
UK: Council exposes details of vulnerable children and adults
It seems like only one year ago that I was posting a news story about a string of data protection breaches by employees at the Leicester City Council. Oh wait, it was a year ago. Now it appears that there is yet another breach. Stowe Family Law LLP reports: An unnamed person at Leicester City…