Alexander J. Martin reports: A threat intelligence report into the availability of login credentials for US government agencies has identified 47 agencies across 89 unique domains may be compromised. The findings resulted from an analysis of open source intelligence (OSint) from 17 paste sites, carried out between 4 November 2013 and 4 November 2014. Read…
Category: Government Sector
Computer system that detected massive government data breach could itself be at ‘high risk,’ audit finds
Eric Yoder reports: The computer upgrade that federal officials tout as having detected — although not prevented — a massive breach of information on federal employees is itself at high risk of failure, according to a new internal audit. The independent inspector general’s office within the Office of Personnel Management is conducting a thorough review…
Indiana judge: Judge: Hackers accessed Clarksville social security numbers, other data (Update1)
WHAS-TV reports: Clarksville Town Court Judge James Guilfoyle told WHAS-TV Tuesday that computer hackers accessed records filled with names, birth dates, addresses and social security numbers. Investigators are still trying to figure out the scope of the data breach. Read more on WHAS. Update1: The updated information reads like a ransomware situation, but no ransom…
Even Behind Closed Doors, Senators Aren’t Getting Their OPM Hack Questions Answered
Kaveh Waddell reports: After weeks of revelations about cyberattacks that may have exposed the personal information of as many as 18 million federal workers, Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, gave senators a classified briefing Tuesday to try to put lawmakers’ questions to rest. But senators from both sides of the…
OPM hack cost estimate is $19M? I think not.
$19 million is the estimated cost of notifications and credit monitoring for affected employees, according to OPM director Katherine Archuleta, It’s not clear to me if she based that figure on the original 4.2M affected figure or a newer 18M estimate. And it doesn’t include notifications or credit monitoring for family members or others whose information was exposed in…
IE: Free GP care registration site suffers data breach
HISI reports: The HSE’s registration system for under-6s free GP care has suffered a data breach as parents registering their children for the new scheme could see an application made by another person. As required, the breach was reported to the Data Protection Commissioner after “a very small number of people” could view data relating to…