Bradley Jolly reports: A sex abuse survivor is one of “around 400” victims of a “chilling” data breach, it tonight has emerged. The London Mayor’s Office blunder, currently under investigation, involves complaints about policing in the capital being made wrongly accessible via an official website. The survivor of sexual abuse has described her distress tonight. The probe centres…
Category: Government Sector
Hillsborough notifies 70,000 of potential data breach in health, aging services
C. T. Bowen reports: Hillsborough County has notified more than 70,000 people that a global data breach may have put their personal information at risk. The breach involved the MOVEit file transfer tool, a third-party service that complies with federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. The breach also may have affected 106…
Bjorka strikes again? 34 million Indonesian Passports Exposed in a Massive Immigration Directorate Data Breach
Alicia Hope reports: Over 34 million Indonesian passports were leaked in a massive data breach impacting the country’s Immigration Directorate General at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Cybersecurity researcher and founder of Ethical Hacker Indonesia, Teguh Aprianto, disclosed the breach on his Twitter account @secgron, attributing the attack to a hacktivist identified as…
Chinese Hackers Breached Government Email Accounts, Microsoft Says
Julian E. Barnes, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swans report: Chinese hackers intent on collecting intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday night. The attack was targeted, according to a person briefed on the intrusion into the government networks, with the hackers going after specific accounts rather than…
Russian hackers lured embassy workers in Ukraine with ad for a cheap BMW
James Pearson reports: Hackers suspected of working for Russia’s foreign intelligence agency targeted dozens of diplomats at embassies in Ukraine with a fake used car advert in a bid to break into their computers, according to a cybersecurity firm report published on Wednesday. The wide-reaching espionage activity targeted diplomats working in at least 22 of…
Why gay furry hackers are leaking state government documents
Hacktivism is still a thing, of course, perhaps even more so these days with all the political conflicts in within and between countries and religions. If you’ve been wondering about a group describing themselves as “gay, furry hackers,” Sofia Mahirova has a write-up about them: Earlier this month, SiegedSec, the group of self-described “gay and…