Express & Star reports: The council mistakenly sent the list of children, including personal information, to a number of its in-house foster carers. It has now launched an investigation into the data breach and insisted that ‘no children were put at risk’. But County Councillor George Adamson, who is also the leader of Cannock Chase District…
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Bingham County servers locked up by ransomware; hackers demanded $25k – $30k
Stephan Rockefeller reports: Bingham County officials are scrambling to rebuild parts of their computer infrastructure after a ransomware attack took down county servers on Wednesday. Although efforts have been made to correct the problem, computer issues remained as of Friday. “Every department in the county is affected in some way,” Bingham County Commissioner Whitney Manwaring…
Oklahoma Gov, OMES Confirm Unnamed Agency Hacked, No Ransom Paid
Grant Hermes reports: Calling it a “catch-22”, Oklahoma state officials declined to release which state agency was discovered to have been attacked by hackers, claiming on Wednesday that releasing the name could compromise the agency further. Last week, the state director of Oklahoma CyberCommand told a House of Representative committee an agency had been attacked…
Information Breach Reported By Hillsborough County
Sherri Lonon reports: Hillsborough County Aging Services has notified about 650 clients about a possible breach of protected health information that occurred in 2011. The potential breach was brought to the county’s attention in December 2016 by a former employee. According to the county, the possible breach occurred in March 2011 when an employee of…
WV: DEP says computer outage not caused by hacking
Ken Ward Jr. reports: The state Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that a more than weeklong outage of some of its computer systems was not the result of a hacking incident reported by an internet technology firm. DEP did not provide additional information about the computer outage, which affected a variety of online databases…
AU: Privacy commissioner apologises for accidentally releasing email addresses
The Privacy Commissioner has been forced to apologise after the email addresses of more than 300 people were accidentally released. In an invite to a Information Security forum, the body revealed the emails of all those who had been invited. Read more on 3AW.