Jeremy Seth Davis reports: A white hat researcher discovered a pair of data breaches in which email and password credentials of government employees were dumped on Pastebin. Hackers dumped almost 4,000 credentials gained during two separate breaches that contained credentials linked to U.S. and Ukrainian government employees. The attackers breached a website affiliated with the…
Category: Government Sector
CO: Hackers hit Larimer County, services impacted
9News reports: A cyber incident is affecting compute systems in Larimer County. The county’s computer systems have had limited function since the incident on Wednesday. County officials say they’re working with security providers to find the cause and get the restores services. County data is secure and protected. The duration of this event is unknown. Read…
NL: Eindhoven cop fired for misusing police database, leaking info
Janene Pieters reports: A 46-year-old police officer from Eindhoven was officially dismissed for leaking confidential police information, ANP reports The man was arrested in October last year on suspicion of violating his official secrecy. The Public Prosecutor now decided that he will be prosecuted for that. The Prosecutor believes that he searched for information on…
19 House Democrat Websites Have Been Down For Days, Hacked Following Sit-In
Ted Goodman reports: Hackers took over 19 official government websites for Congressman since last Thursday after a major hacking incident compromised the network. The affected representatives contract their website management with the company DCS Services who works exclusively with House Democrats. People who visit the official sites of the nineteen affected legislators see a “site under maintenance” message. Read…
OPM breach NOT bigger than previously admitted (CORRECTED)
CORRECTION: An alert reader notified this site that NextGov had goofed in reporting that OPM had recently revealed that the breach was larger than previously reported. NextGov has retracted that part of their story and issued an Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: The original version of this article erroneously stated that the Office of Personnel Management had acknowledged for…
French police hit by security breach as data put online
BBC reports: The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist. A mutual organisation which provides extra health and other insurance benefits for police says the details were uploaded by a disgruntled…