Fox10 in Phoenix reports that the City of Phoenix’s internet system was under attack by hackers over the weekend. And the email system for the city of Mobile, Alabama was under heavy attack last week by hackers who used the system to send out spam. No personal information was reportedly compromised in either of the attacks,…
Category: Government Sector
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters
Michael Isikoff reports: The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called “second leaker” who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list to a journalist closely associated with ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, according to law enforcement and intelligence sources who have been briefed on the…
ME: Former employees sue Washington County sheriff over release of personnel information
Bill Trotter and Judy Harrison report: Seventeen ex-employees of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office have sued Sheriff Donnie Smith over the collection and release of their personnel information as part of Smith’s unsuccessful effort to contest the ballot eligibility of two political opponents earlier this year. […] The complaint, filed Monday in Washington County Superior Court,…
S. Sudan says it will not expel Chinese company officials
Sudan Tribune reports: South Sudan has vowed not to expel any member of Huawei, a Chinese technological company it accused of allegedly forging documents on behalf of its information minister. This comes a day after the country’s authorities ordered an investigation into allegations that Huawei had hacked its systems. Read more on Sudan Tribune.
Update: Former IRS employee sentenced
There’s an update to a case previously noted here concerning a rogue Mark Morris of the Kansas City Star reports that Taylor S. Knight has been sentenced to two years in prison and $5,000 in restitution for her role in an id theft scheme. Knight pleaded guilty in July.
NC: 70+ Lenoir County employees compromised by data breach
WNCT reports that more than 70 Lenoir County employees have been notified that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed due an error by a Human Resources employee who neglected to redact the data in a salary report. Kinston provides some additional details. The unredacted report was sent to one person, who had worked in law…