Hacktivism is alive and well in Spain. Joshua Taylor reports: Spain’s most senior court fell victim to a massive cyber attack as hackers launched an “Operation Free Catalonia” campaign. The country’s constitutional court said unknown hackers had accessed its computer systems on Friday. The Spanish National Security Department said the hack was part of a…
Category: Government Sector
Computer file stolen in Oklahoma could put Spokane veterans at risk for identity theft
Thomas Clouse reports: The staff at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center is working to determine the scope of what could be the potential release of records for 1,915 veterans, who could now become victims of identity theft. On July 18 someone stole two USB drives containing the personal information for the veterans from a contract employee…
UK: NHS data loss scandal deepens with further 162,000 files missing
Rajeev Syal and Denis Campbell report: The scandal over the biggest ever loss of NHS medical correspondence has deepened with the revelation that a further 162,000 documents went missing, in addition to the 702,000 pieces of paperwork already known to have gone astray. MPs said they were “dumbstruck” to learn that even more material relating…
Laptop with “sensitive material” on homicides stolen from DA employee’s car
Joe Eskenazi reports: Car break-ins in San Francisco have reached epidemic proportions, and city employees aren’t immune. Now it’s the Office of the District Attorney’s turn. Thankfully, it wasn’t a gun stolen from a car this time. But the item lost to a burglar or burglars is tied to San Francisco homicides. An alert sent…
AU: Hacker codenamed in honour of ‘Alf’ from Home and Away stole sensitive data about Australian military projects
David Wroe reports: Commercially sensitive information on the $14 billion Joint Strike Fighter program, Australia’s next fleet of spy planes and several of its naval warships have been stolen by hackers who breached a Department of Defence contractor, a government official has revealed. A manager at the Australian Signals Directorate – the government’s main national…
North Korean hackers have reportedly stolen secret US/South Korean war plans
Jamie Seidel reports: Top secret war plans are among a host of classified military documents reportedly stolen by North Korean hackers in a ‘raid’ on a secure defence data centre last year. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports Operational Plan 5015 — the most up-to-date blueprint for a US/South Korean war with Pynongyang, including a…