Tevye Markson reports: The Government Legal Department has launched an investigation after a data leak in which the names of civil servants claiming expenses was published online. Documents showing officials’ names were published on GOV.UK accidentally and stayed up for a week. The dossier showed credit-card spend at the department of more than £500 between…
Category: Government Sector
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation notifies staff, visitors, and incarcerated individuals of breach
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) issued a breach notification this week. Because the notification mentions COVID-19 testing, at first, DataBreaches thought it was the incident CDCR had disclosed last month, but no, it turns out that that was a different incident. The newly revealed breach affects staff, visitors, and others tested for…
WA: W-2 wage information of Kent city employees ‘inadvertently disclosed’ | Update
Steve Hunter reports: A city of Kent staff member “inadvertently disclosed to (another city) employee a file containing the 2020 W-2 Wage and Tax Statement information for all city employees,” according to an email sent by Chief Administrative Officer Pat Fitzpatrick to city employees. In the Friday, Aug. 19 email, Fitzpatrick said he was writing…
Hacker accesses injured workers’ personal info in cyberattack on North Dakota agency
It’s not often we see a breach report from North Dakota. Forum reports: The North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance agency was a victim of a cybersecurity attack on June 28 that involved personal data, according to a statement released by WSI on Friday, Aug. 19. According to the statement: A Workforce Safety & Insurance…
CO: Fremont County cyberattack update
Aidan Hulting reported the following on August 19: Fremont County officials say the county is still suffering from a cyberattack that took down county government systems on Wednesday, August 17th. The attack caused Fremont County Government buildings and county government systems to remain closed through Friday. Read more at KOAA. The official county website still…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Brazil – Prefeitura do Rio The Prefeitura do Rio posted an announcement on its website about a cyberattack. In machine translation, it reads: Rio’s City Hall systems suffered a hacker attack in the early hours of Monday, 08/15. All services of the City Hall Portal were preventively taken offline to ensure data protection. We are working…