Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack on a small city in Kansas has disrupted the government’s email, phone and online payment systems. Pittsburg — home to about 20,000 people along the state’s border with Missouri and Oklahoma — said it discovered the incident over the weekend. The attack caused an IT outage that limited government systems…
Category: Government Sector
Outage at Canadian airports was from a DDoS attack
La Press reports (automatic machine translation follows): The widespread breakdown of border terminals in Canadian airports on Sunday, claimed by a group of pro-Russian hackers, was indeed the result of a computer attack. This would thus be a rare case, if not the first, where such an assault has real impacts on the country’s infrastructure, according…
Cyberattack on a Breton municipality: private data released
The following is a Google translation of a post originally published in French by Europe1 with AVP: The town of Betton (Ille-et-Vilaine), close to Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack by hackers who disseminated personal data due to the municipality’s refusal to pay a “ransom”, according to corroborating sources. The “ransomware” attack was committed…
“I’m Not Pro-Russia and I’m Not a Terrorist!” —- InfraGard and Airbus Hacker “USDoD” Unveils His New Campaigns
The first time DataBreaches remembers hearing about the man who calls himself “USDoD” was when he posted a sales listing for member data from InfraGard. He had not only managed to acquire data on 80,000 members of an organization dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure, but his revelation of his method exposed some embarrassingly inept security…
Iranian state-backed hackers target global satellite, defense, and pharma companies
The Shillong Times reports: Microsoft analysts have revealed that Iranian state-backed hackers have been actively targeting satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Their primary objective appears to be gathering intelligence and potentially bolstering domestic production in these industries, particularly in the face of heavy US sanctions. As per IANS, these hackers have successfully infiltrated multiple…
Au: Federal government could pay millions in compensation over asylum seeker data breach
Ben Doherty reports: The Australian government may be liable for tens of millions of dollars in compensation to asylum seekers after it posted their personal details online while they were in immigration detention. The mass data breach, discovered by Guardian Australia in 2014, resulted in information being used, in some cases, to allegedly threaten asylum seekers, or…