Over on Twitter, Brian Honan just noted that two infosec stories led the evening news in Ireland tonight. One of them surely must be the Loyaltybuild/Supervalu breach, reported previously on this blog. I suspect this is the other one: The Road Safety Authority has confirmed that a data breach has occurred on the website for…
Category: Government Sector
IN: Jeffersonville reports ‘serious’ breach of personal data that has been recurring since…. 2001!
Charlie White reports: Jeffersonville is notifying city vendors and officials of a recurring “serious” data breach in which their names and addresses — and some Social Security numbers — were mistakenly e-mailed to city employees. “Because this is a serious incident, we strongly encourage you to take preventative measures now to help prevent and detect…
Predictable…
Following up on this, is there anyone who really didn’t see this one coming?
Follow-up: NYPD Detective Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Computer Hacking
An update to a hacking case involving an NYPD detective that was previously noted on this blog (here). Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), pled guilty to computer hacking crimes. Specifically, Vargas paid others to hack into e-mail accounts, including e-mail accounts belonging to other NYPD officers and employees, and…
Update: Baltimore County finds additional personal info on contents stolen from hard drive
An update to the breach reported in this blog entry. As if the breach wasn’t bad enough already, further investigation revealed: … individual checking and bank routing numbers were also stolen. Those particular files of 6,633 employees were also improperly copied from a County employee’s work computer on May 9, 2012. In a letter that…
Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords – sources
Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel report that Edward Snowden successfully socially engineered employees at the NSA into giving him their login credentials: Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden used login credentials and passwords provided unwittingly by colleagues at a spy base in Hawaii to access some of the classified material he leaked to…