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…
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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…
Trying to get Maricopa County to respond to a privacy concern? Good luck with that!
As I’ve lamented (ok, bitched) many times: trying to notify an entity of a privacy or data security concern can be time-consuming and frustrating if the entity does not provide a clear means to notify them or doesn’t respond to your e-mails or calls. If you are thinking of trying to notify Maricopa County, Arizona…
Hackers Just Leaked Personal Data of US Military Officials and it’s Legit
Waqas writes: Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH) made their entry a few months ago by conducting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Black Lives Matter websites. The group then took part in Anonymous‘ linked operation OpIcarus against banking and financial institutions but the latest attack shows the hackers have graduated to a whole new level. Yes, Ghost Squad…
AU: Queensland creep cops charged with snooping through police records
Darren Pauli reports: Police in the northern Australian state of Queensland have been busted accessing citizens’ police files a huge number of times, in some cases without authorisation. The breaches include the accessing of a bikini model and social justice warrior’s QPrime database file some 1,435 times. Former Miss Bikini World contestant Renee Eaves previously…