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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
NJ: Toms River Police Respond To Possible Data Breach
Chris Lundy has an update to a breach previously noted on this site last month. After a malfunction, some documents on a police database were potentially able to be accessed by non-police, according to a statement released by Chief Mitch Little. The incident began on Aug. 2, when it was discovered that the Computer Assisted…
City of Calgary embroiled in privacy breach class-action lawsuit
Lyle Adriano reports: The city of Calgary is facing a $92.9 million lawsuit for allegedly breaching the privacy rights of its employees. The suit, filed Tuesday, alleged a privacy breach in June 2016. The document claims that a city staffer sent an email to an employee of another Alberta municipality which contained the personal information…
UK teenager admits attempt to hack into CIA chief’s computer
Kevin Rawlinson reports: A British teenager has admitted trying to hack into the computers of senior US government officials, including the director of the CIA and the deputy director of the FBI. Kane Gamble, 18, pleaded guilty on Friday to 10 charges at Leicester crown court. Besides John Brennan, the then director of the CIA,…