NL Times reports: Confidential personal information was recently stolen from a police cadet’s car in Eindhoven. The cop-in-training forgot to take her laptop bag and documents from her car when she parked in Eindhoven overnight. The next morning she found the window broken and her things gone, Omroep Brabant reports. The incident happened on the…
Category: Government Sector
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Saturday edition: Cincinnati inadvertently posted employees’ personal data online
Dan Horn reports: Personal information for more than 2,000 current and former Cincinnati city employees appeared online for almost two weeks in April because of a mistake, city officials said Friday. The employee data includes names, addresses, insurance information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. Read more at Cincinnati.com
Cameron County Elections Office Reports Online Security Breach
Tim Sullivan reports: The Cameron County Elections Department is acknowledging a security breach in which someone gained access to files containing the personal identifying information of staff members and poll workers. Elections Administrator Remi Garza says the person was able to access files in the online storage system of Easy Vote, a company that provides…
DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal
Brian Krebs reports: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal…
Over 1,200 IDF soldiers examined after WSJ leak on naval ops against Iran
Tzvi Joffre reports: The communications of about 1,200 IDF soldiers were examined and 10 officials were questioned after information about Israeli strikes on Iranian ships was leaked to The Wall Street Journal last year. […] The IDF told the State Attorney that over 1,200 soldiers were exposed to the secrets about the operations, while only about 450…
IL: Quincy facing one of the ‘worst cyber attacks’ to ever hit the community
Rebecca Duffy reports: The city of Quincy is dealing with what the mayor calls one of the worst cyber attacks to ever hit the community, and they still don’t know how it happened. Mayor Mike Troup said around 7:30 Saturday morning the city of Quincy was got hit by a cyber attack. “This probably is…