Charles Oliver reports on an insider-wrongdoing case that was taken seriously: A former Dalton Police Department officer has been sentenced to five years on probation after pleading guilty to computer invasion of privacy and violation of oath by a public officer, according to District Attorney Bert Poston. Trevin Dane Stover of Resaca must also pay…
Category: Government Sector
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl: Guacamaya Group leaks emails from Joint Chiefs of Staff El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, was the victim of a data leak. Thousands of emails were leaked online by the hacktivist group, Guacamaya in “Operation Repressive Forces. About 10TB of emails from military and…
IL: Some residents’ personal information possibly compromised in Quincy ransomware incident
Back in May, DataBreaches reported on a significant ransomware attack of Quincy, Illinois’s systems. Quincy paid ransom at the time to get a decryption key. Now KHQA reports: Some residents of Quincy may have had their personal information compromised when the city was hit by a cybersecurity attack earlier this year. The city said the…
Gag order issued to stop release of information stolen by hackers
The Tirana Times reports: With publication on the web of documents stolen by Iran-linked hackers from Albanian State Police servers, the Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana has ordered media to stop publishing any stories sourced from data published by the authors of the cyberattack. Many Albanian media say the order amounts to censorship, a stance backed…
Bosnia and Herzegovina investigating alleged ransomware attack on parliament
Jonathan Greig reports: Prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina are investigating a wide-ranging cyberattack that has crippled the operations of the country’s parliament. For nearly two weeks, the website for the country’s parliament has been down, and local news outlet Nezavisne spoke with several lawmakers who said they were told to not even turn on their computers, barring them from…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Ransomware attacks continue This week, LockBit added four entities related to South America: Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela: Comision Nacional de Acreditación in Chile CNA is a public entity that seeks to evaluate and accredit the quality of the Institutions of Higher Education in Chile. DataBreaches sent an email to them yesterday to ask them if…