Fleur Anderson and Paul Smith report: The Australian Taxation Office has restored access to some of its online services, but concerns remain that large amounts of data have been lost after it suffered a “world-first” technical glitch to equipment from Hewlett Packard Enterprise more than 24 hours earlier. Tax officials were reportedly told to work…
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OH: Stolen prisoners’ identities netted $422,523 in college loans
Alan Johnson reports: State investigators have uncovered a scheme where the identities of prison inmates were stolen to fraudulently apply for and receive $422,523 in student college loans. Ohio Inspector General Randall J. Meyer found the fraud during a two-year investigation after receiving a tip from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General…
Hacker Claims Theft of Thousands of Passport Numbers from Russian Consulate
Joseph Cox reports: A hacker claims to have stolen thousands of passport numbers and other pieces of personal information from the website of a Russian consular department. The hacker, who calls himself Kapustkiy, plans to publish around a thousand records out of the 30,000 or so he allegedly obtained. The apparent target was ambru.nl, the…
AR: Carroll County pays ransomware demand
Adam Roberts reports: The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office paid the equivalent of $2,400 in ransom money to hackers, the county announced at a press conference Monday afternoon. […] The files in question were all decrypted after the ransom was paid, the sheriff’s office said. Read more on 40/29 TV.
Nevada Court Says Juror ID Information Compromised
LasVegasNOW reports that an employee of A&B Printing & Mailing LLC, a printing company the courts use to send out jury summons, may have engaged in wrongdoing: Court officials said Thursday they notified 380 people that their personal identity information may have been released without authorization by a company hired to print juror summonses. […]They said…
Georgia Accuses Homeland Security Of Attempting To Hack State’s Election Database
From the we-re-from-the-government-and-we’re-here-to-help-you dept., Tyler Durden reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is anxiously wondering, as are we, why someone with a Department Of Homeland Security IP address would try to hack into his State’s voter registration database. Even though DHS offered cyber security help to states prior to the election, the Wall Street Journal notes…