Seen on the county’s website, dated April 22, 2022: Notice of Data Privacy Event Scott County, Iowa (“Scott County”) is providing notice of a data privacy event. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. In an abundance of caution, we are notifying potentially…
Category: Government Sector
Cyber attack causes chaos in Costa Rica government systems
Javier Cordoba and Christopher Sherman report: Nearly a week into a ransomware attack that has crippled Costa Rican government computer systems, the country refused to pay a ransom as it struggled to implement workarounds and braced itself as hackers began publishing stolen information. The Russian-speaking Conti gang claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Costa…
Report: Pro-Iran hackers target Israel Airports Authority website; Israeli portal also hit
JNS reports: A pro-Iran hacking group named Altahrea Team targeted the website of the Israel Airports Authority, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. The group said its actions were “revenge” for the assassination by the United States on Jan. 3 of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandes, the commander of the pro-Iranian…
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City Hit by Cybersecurity Attack Over Holiday Weekend
Seen at http://wycokck.org/: Published on April 19, 2022 UPDATE ON SERVICE IMPACTS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022 The Unified Government has been working through a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the recent cybersecurity attack on our systems and services. Work to restore services is underway. As of this afternoon, the following services are impacted: Appraiser’s…
Journalist detained after claiming Turkey’s e-government system was hacked
Bianet reports: The Ministry of Interior filed a complaint against İbrahim Haskoloğlu, a journalist who shared ID cards allegedly belonging to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Chair Hakan Fidan on Twitter. After the complaint, the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation against the journalist for “illegally obtaining personal information.”…
Blue Earth County releases report on insider data breach that began in 2020
It seems like only yesterday that we were pointing to an insider-wrongdoing breach that involved people’s medical information. Oh right, it was. And here’s yet another one. Aaron Stuve reports: Blue Earth County has released information regarding a data breach from last year. The report said that an employee of the Human Services Department accessed…