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…
Category: Government Sector
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.
TxDOT computer system in “security incident”
KXAN reports: The Texas Department of Transportation says some personal information of employees was compromised last week due to a “security incident.” KXAN first learned of the system breach from sources late Tuesday. The department says the breach of TxDOT’s automated administrative system was discovered Friday afternoon. The agency says “a small number of employees”…
PharmaNet breach compromises personal information of 7,500 B.C. residents, says province
CBC News reports: The personal information of approximately 7,500 British Columbians may have been compromised through the provincial government’s PharmaNet system, according to the Ministry of Health. A letter from the ministry was sent last week to B.C residents affected by the breach. The letter says an “unknown/unauthorized person obtained and used a physician’s login to access PharmaNet.” PharmaNet…