Shane Harris reports: The Russian hackers who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee as part of a campaign to interfere in the 2016 election have been trying to steal information from the U.S. Senate, according to a report published Friday by a computer security firm. Beginning last June, the Russian hackers set up websites…
Category: Government Sector
UIDAI firewalls 5,000 officials post ‘breach’
Surabhi Agarwal reports that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has taken steps to prevent a future breach like the one that caused a media firestorm when a reporter was able to easily purchase access to Aadhaar credentials. UIDAI has now restricted the access of those who were previously able to access information more…
Ca: 2,551 people affected by Guelph privacy breach
CTV reports: Personal information belonging to thousands of people was accidentally shared with a lawyer involved in legal action against the City of Guelph. The issue first came to light last February, when city officials said “files not relevant to the litigation that had been delayed, but not permanently erased” had been on a file…
Shoot/Sue the Messenger, Indian style: An Indian journalist exposed a huge breach in a government database. Now she’s facing a police complaint.
Vidhi Doshi reports: An Indian government agency has filed a police complaint against a journalist who exposed a possible security breach in the country’s vast biometric database that contains the personal details of more than 1 billion citizens, raising fresh concerns about shrinking press freedom in India. The complaint against journalist Rachna Khaira came after she wrote…
German Health Ministry lobbyist data theft trial begin
Two men accused of stealing data from the Federal Ministry of Health face trial in Berlin Thursday. A system administrator is alleged to have provided a pharmaceutical lobbyist with inside information. An external IT expert working for the German Health Ministry is being charged with receiving bribes from a lobbyist working for the pharmaceutical industry to spy…
More details emerge on Department of Homeland Security breach affecting more than 247,000 employees and non-employees
If you were part of a Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General investigation at some time between 2002 through 2014, DHS wants you to know that you may be a breach victim. Unfortunately, due to “technological” issues, it seems that DHS can’t directly contact you to alert you, so read on….. A few…