Update: The Home Minister says the claims reported below are untrue because the Election Commission only releases information such as the names and identity card numbers of voters. Original post: Kalbana Perimbanayagam and Dania Nabila report: Another data breach has allegedly occurred in Malaysia, this time involving the personal details of 800,000 voters. The 67gb…
Category: Government Sector
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
ES: Half a million taxpayers and 50,000 police have their information stolen by attackers El Economista reports the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) suffered a cyberattack on its Punto Neutro Judicial (PNJ) platform that connects judicial bodies with other government agencies, including the National Police Force, the Attorney General’s Office, and the General Secretariat…
State hit by largest sustained Election Day cyberattack warns ‘it’s only going to get worse’
Mark Albert reports: The longest sustained cyberattack against election websites in America on Election Day did not affect any votes but caused disruptions to voters’ efforts to determine their polling locations and access other information, Michael Watson, Mississippi’s secretary of state, said in his first interview about the attack. Watson, the state’s top election administrator,…
Arkansas county offices working without computers during possible breach
Bill Bowden reports from Arkansas: Across Arkansas, many county government employees were working without computers on Wednesday after a Rogers-based information technology company told them to shut down computer servers because of a possible security breach. “They’re telling us not to even turn them on, period,” said Stephen Willis, the Newton County assessor in Jasper….
IL Champaign County Clerk reports cyber-attacks on servers
Melissa Coyne reports: The Champaign County Clerk’s office is reporting that computer server performance is being impacted by cyber-attacks on the network and servers. The Champaign County Clerk said the website has been the target of repeated D-DOS attacks for the past month, fortunately the reinforced security and response from the Clerk’s IT team has…
NL: Land Registry data leak: Protected addresses accessible for nearly a month
NL Times reports: A data leak at the Land Registry meant that protected residential addresses were visible and accessible between September 18 and October 11, the organization that manages real estate confirmed to the Volkskrant. According to the Land Registry, the leak occurred during a recent system update, and it notified the Dutch Data Protection Authority. The…