Elizabeth Dobbins reports: City officials discovered last month the Social Security numbers of 1,800 state residents were released in a breach of city records three and a half years ago, according to a report filed with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. “There was an unauthorized access of information that was held…
Category: Government Sector
MVD database compromised: Vehicle registration details leaked
Thiruvananthapuram: In a major security breach, the official database maintained by the Motor Vehicles Department in Kerala has apparently been compromised. The details on the website, access to which is regulated to official circles, has been published by a by a private company on their website. Read more on Mathrubhumi.com. To help you: 20 crore…
Great news Australia: We’ve had our first metadata breach
Claire Reilly and Luke Lancaster report: Chalk this one up for the security record books under the chapter titled, “We told you so.” Australia has its first (reported) metadata breach. And it came at the hands of an Australian Federal Police officer. The AFP today revealed one of its officers “illegally” accessed the metadata of…
UK: Privacy breach at Gloucestershire County Council exposed medical information online
When hacktivist @ElSurveillance recently tweeted that 14 government sites had the same vulnerabilities, including MYSQL, Cross Site Script, etc., someone responded that councils were generally not considered “government.” DataBreaches.net had – and will continue to – consider them “government” entities, as local government is still government. And in this site’s experience, council breaches can involve sensitive information,…
High Court hands Lauri Love permission to appeal extradition to US
Alexander J. Martin reports: Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, England, has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States. The High Court has today granted Love, 32, permission to appeal against his handover to US authorities, which was initially agreed in Westminster Magistrates’ Court last September. Read more…
Hackers reportedly disable Newark computers and demand $30K ‘ransom’
Paul Milo reported this yesterday: Hackers have disabled some City of Newark computers and are now demanding about $30,000 worth of the online currency Bitcoin to render them operable once again, TAPInto reported Monday. The computers were infected over the weekend with an encryption that affects nearly all files that operate on a desktop, according to…