Mithun MK reports: French cyber-security researcher Robert Baptiste has found that over 40 GB of sensitive data belonging to State-owned telecom company BSNL, containing names, passwords and mobile numbers of its 47,000 employees, was vulnerable to hacking due to security flaws in websites under the BSNL domain. A few of the websites were also under…
Category: Government Sector
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services Notifies 11,000 Consumers About Breach of Protected Health Information
March 1, 2018 TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) has begun to notify individual consumers about a recent incident in which personal or protected health information was disseminated to a specific group of KDADS business associates. On February 23, 2018, KDADS became aware of a potential breach of personal…
Germany admits hackers infiltrated federal ministries, Russian group suspected
DW reports: The German government confirmed on Wednesday that it had suffered a large cyberattack that infiltrated federal computer networks. Citing anonymous sources, German news agency dpa had earlier reported that the Russian hacking group APT28 had placed malware in a government network and infiltrated the Foreign and Defense Ministries. The sources said the malware could have…
Major data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands
Shawn Snow reports: Roughly 21,426 people were impacted when an unencrypted email with an attachment containing personal confidential information was sent to the wrong email distribution list Monday morning. The compromised attachment included highly sensitive data such as truncated social security numbers, bank electronic funds transfer and bank routing numbers, truncated credit card information, mailing…
U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election
Cynthia McFadden, William M. Arkin, Kevin Monahan, and Ken Dilanian report: The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election — but never told the states involved, according to multiple U.S. officials. Top-secret intelligence requested by…
Connecticut state agencies targeted in cyberattack
AP reports State officials say a weekend cyberattack targeted about 160 computers at a dozen Connecticut state agencies. A spokesman for the state Department of Administrative Services says the ransomware attack was first detected Friday and state computer experts worked over the weekend to contain it. Agency spokesman Jeffrey Beckham says the attack appeared to…