Sarah Ravani reports: Oakland’s police union filed a claim against the city after a ransomware attack released personal information for thousands of current and former city employees, union officials said Monday. The legal filing, which asks for monetary damages of up to $25,000 per affected employee, argues that the city failed to implement “reasonable, industry-standard…
Category: Government Sector
UK criminal records office confirms cyber incident behind portal issues
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The UK’s Criminal Records Office (ACRO) has finally confirmed, after weeks of delaying issuing a statement, that online portal issues experienced since January 17 resulted from what it described as a “cyber security incident.” ACRO is the country’s national law enforcement organization responsible for managing criminal record information, providing criminal records on…
Service NSW breach exposes personal data affecting thousands of customers
7News reports: The personal information of Service NSW customers has been exposed to other logged-in individuals during a privacy incident, the agency says. An update released to the “My services” dashboard on March 20 resulted in the data breach, Service NSW chief executive officer Greg Wells said in an email to affected customers shared with AAP on…
Agencies hunt for hacker “9Near” (updated)
The Bangkok Post reports: Authorities are hunting down a hacker who has threatened to release the personal data of 55 million Thais if the government agency allegedly involved in the leakage of information fails to meet a ransom demand by April 5. Read more at The Bangkok Post. See also Thaiger. As of publication time,…
Florida city water cyber incident allegedly caused by employee error
There is an update to a story posted on DataBreaches in 2021 about a scary-sounding attempt to hack and control the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida. Today, Chris Teale reports that no, it wasn’t that at all. It was just an employee clicking on some wrong buttons before he informed his supervisor of his…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: Secondary education center hit by Stormous After several months out of the public eye, the pro-Russian Stormous Ransomware group reappeared in February. Now they have claimed an attack on a secondary education center, the Instituto De Educación Secundaria Ies Emilio Canalejo Olmeda (IESCO) in Cordoba, Spain. On March 30, Stormous listed the entity in…