Evan Bolin reports: Iowa County, Wisconsin is working with cybersecurity experts after suspicious activity was detected in the county computer network. County spokesperson Debbie Siegenthaler says the county detected the activity on April 28. At that point, the county took systems offline out of an abundance of caution. Siegenthaler says some government services and functions…
Category: Government Sector
Data breach at collections vendor could affect some Bristol, Tennessee accounts
Another client of Nationwide Recovery Services has announced they were affected by the vendor’s breach. Robert Sorrell reports: BRISTOL, Tenn. — A data breach at a third-party vendor used by the city of Bristol, Tennessee, may have exposed sensitive personal information of residents whose accounts had been turned over for collection. During a City Council…
Pro-Russian hackers strike Dutch municipalities with coordinated DDoS attack
NL Times reports: A large-scale cyberattack hit multiple Dutch municipalities and provinces on Monday morning, rendering the websites of more than twenty local governments inaccessible for several hours. The attack, claimed by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName, caused significant disruption but did not compromise critical infrastructure or steal any data, according to AD. The group, which has…
Oregon DEQ won’t say if ransomware group took employee data in cyberattack
Gosia Wozniacka of Oregon Live reports: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Friday declined to confirm or deny reports that a well-known ransomware group stole employee files in a recent cyberattack at the agency. The department faced questions after several cybersecurity websites reported that ransomware group Rhysida is behind the cyberattack at the DEQ…
High Court rules landlord entitled to additional £6m indemnity from insurance broker after data breach
Matilda Battersby reports: A housing association’s broker has been found liable for “breach of duty” in a landmark High Court judgment. Watford Community Housing (WCH) brought a professional negligence claim against Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers for failing to make “timely notifications” of a data breach to one of three of its insurers. Deputy High…
Oregon court dismisses lawsuit over 2023 MOVEit data breach affecting 3.5 million Oregonians
While the ransomware attack on the Oregon Department of Environmental Equality (DQE) is making headlines this month, there was also an update to a lawsuit stemming from the MOVEit breach in 2023 that affected 3.5 million Oregonians whose driver’s license and identity information was held by the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services. Aimee Green…