Daisy Graham-Brown reports: Police in Northern Ireland have been involved in a data breach ‘of monumental proportions’ affecting thousands of officers and civilian staff. The major breach reportedly involves names, ranks and other personal data from employees of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), but does not involve the officers’ and civilians’ private addresses, it is…
Category: Government Sector
NITDA warns of cyber-attack on Nigerian government infrastructure
Aghogho Udi reports: The National Information Technology Development Agency (NIDTA) has alerted the public of the activities of cyber criminals targeting important digital infrastructure in the country. This was disclosed via a press statement signed by the head of corporate affairs and external relations Mrs. Hadiza Umar this afternoon. Read more at NairaMetrics.com. This appears to be…
Cyber attack on Montclair Township led to $450K ransom payment
Talia Weiner reports: The Township of Montclair’s insurer negotiated a settlement of $450,000 with the people behind a recent “cyber incident” in order to end the attack, a report says. […] “To guard against future incidents, the township has installed the most sophisticated dual authentication system available to its own system and it is currently…
NZ privacy commissioner learnt about ‘serious’ breach from the media
Jonathan Killick reports: The Privacy Commissioner is “frustrated” to have learnt about a “serious” privacy breach through the media, relating to the email addresses of 147 firearms owners being spilled. In July, it was reported that the email addresses of licence holders were to sent to each other after a list of addresses was pasted in the…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid notifying 645,000 Medicare members about MOVEit breach (UPDATED)
Update: This incident was reported to HHS as affecting 1,362,470 patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has posted a notice on its site about a data breach at one of its contractors, Maximus Federal Services, Inc. Maximus was one of hundreds of victims of a 0day attack on MOVEit file transfer software by the…
Norway says Ivanti zero-day was used to hack govt IT systems
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) has confirmed that attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution to breach a software platform used by 12 ministries in the country. The Norwegian Security and Service Organization (DSS) said on Monday that the cyberattack did not affect Norway’s Prime Minister’s Office, the…