Patrick Howell O’Neill reports: Just days after the fatal shooting of a black man by Baton Rouge police prompted international outrage and a Justice Department investigation, the Baton Rouge city government’s servers have been “hacked” and 50,000 city police records leaked online including names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers. A hacker named @0x2Taylor claimed responsibility…
Category: Government Sector
California Health Care Facility email gaffe results in notifications
California Health Care Facility, which is part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is notifying an unspecified number of people that their names and Social Security numbers were erroneously emailed to an unauthorized recipient in an attached document on May 2. The erroneous email was subsequently deleted from the server.
UK: Safe in Police hands? New Big Brother Watch report released
Big Brother Watch has released a new report on data protection in the UK police. Some of their key findings for the period June 1, 2011 – December 31, 2015 were that there have been 2,315 breaches in police forces, including: 869 (38%) instances of inappropriate/unauthorised access to information 877 (38%) instances of inappropriate disclosure of data…
Order of Malta breach contains unhashed gov’t credentials
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…
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…