Here’s yet another insider threat report from a defense agency to end the week. This one is from India. NewsMobile reports: A 27-year-old junior defence contractor has been arrested for allegedly leaking restricted information on Indian Navy warships and submarines to suspected Pakistani intelligence agents, Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) said in a statement issued late…
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St. Cloud Provides Update on Ransomware Attack in 2024
A notice on St. Cloud, Florida’s website: May 29, 2025 – The City of St. Cloud, Florida (the “City”) is issuing updated notice of an event that may impact the security of information related to certain individuals. This notice supplements the notice previously posted on or website on or about May 24, 2024. What Happened? On or…
Developments surrounding data breach at Dutch police
From a press release at politie.nl: The intelligence services AIVD and MIVD announced today that a previously unknown Russian cyber group has carried out hacks on various Dutch organisations, including the police in September 2024. This fits in with the findings of the investigation that the High Tech Crime Team started immediately after the hack,…
B.C. health authority faces class-action lawsuit over 2009 data breach (1)
Brendan Shykora reports: B.C.’s Interior Health Authority (IH) has been served a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2009 that allegedly exposed thousands of employees’ sensitive information, which ended up sold on the dark web. Filed in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday, May 22, the lawsuit claims the breach compromised the personal information of employees who worked for IH between…
PA: York County alerts residents of potential data breach
Sean Adams reports: York County officials have released a warning to residents that a “data privacy event” might have put their information at risk. County officials shared that “in early 2025, the county was notified of a possible data security incident” involving a vendor working with them. An employee of that vendor had been hired…
Gujarat ATS arrests 18-year-old for cyberattacks during Operation Sindoor
Maulik Pathak reports: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested 18-year-old Jasim Shahnawaz Ansari from Nadiad who, along with other juvenile accomplices, orchestrated multiple cyberattacks against several Indian government websites, especially amid Operation Sindoor, India’s military response following the Pahalgam terror attack. “The accused, a 12th-grade dropout, gained expertise in various programming languages, but his…