The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware of “about…
Category: Government Sector
UAE Muslim Brotherhood trial: ‘Secret data stolen from flash drive’
Seen in a report by Abdulla Rasheed on a case in Abu Dhabi: The first witness, an officer at the National Security Department, said one of the accused stole some important secret information related to state security from his flash drive. He said he was also a member of the board of Hatta Sports Club…
Update: Former contract worker identified in theft of employee data in Maryland
Jessica Anderson provides this update on a previously reported breach: A man who stole personal data of thousands of Baltimore County employees while working as a information technology contract worker was identified Wednesday after being extradited from Florida. Baltimore County police said Courtney Calbert, 34, of Dundalk made off with employees’ banking information, Social Security numbers, and…
IE: Data breach on driver licence website investigated
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…
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?