Update: See NASA Denies Hackers Hijacked Its Drone. Help Net Security writes: AnonSec hackers claim that they have breached a number of US NASA’s systems, and they have published a data trove containing video recordings made by the agency’s aircrafts and drones, the drone’s flight logs, and the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of some…
Category: Government Sector
Ministry of Education failed to protect personal information involving missing portable hard drive
VICTORIA—In an investigation report released today, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham found that the Ministry of Education failed to protect the personal information of 3.4 million B.C. and Yukon students stored on a portable hard drive. “This investigation is unique in that we are looking at events that happened more than four years ago. The passage of…
North Carolina State University investigating claimed hack (UPDATED)
On January 17, DataBreaches.net became aware of data that had been uploaded to a paste site on January 15. It claimed to be data from the cwise subdomain of North Carolina State University’s web site. From that site: The NOAA Cooperative Program for Climate & Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment (CWISE) is a collaboration between NOAA’s National Climatic Data…
GA: IT worker blamed for voter data leak disputes state’s report
Adrianne M. Haney reports: The now-former state employee who was fired after a data breach exposed Georgia voter’s personal information is disputing, in detail, the Secretary of State’s internal investigation report that pinned blame on him. Read more on 11Alive.
UK: Lincolnshire council shuts down all IT after malware attack (UPDATE1)
Update: The Independent is reporting that there’s been a £1 million ransom demand attached to this incident. Five days later, the council’s database is still down, it seems. Alexander J. Martin reports: A 0-day security breach at Lincolnshire County Council has exposed locals’ medical records, addresses, and bank details, claimed an anonymous tipster, though the council denies…
AE: Hacker embezzles almost Dhs8.4m
Ahmed Ghannam reports: The Criminal Court in Dubai looked into a case where an employee of a company was charged with accessing the system of the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and manipulating the fees imposed when issuing trade licences. He was also charged with forging government documents belonging to the DED through…