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RI: City of Newport advising past, current employees of potential data loss

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Dissent

Ryan Belmore reports:  After an exhaustive investigation following the discovery of a suspicious email on one of the City’s internal networks, current and former municipal employees are being notified of a suspected security incident that may have left certain personal information compromised. […] Through the investigation, the City learned that there was unauthorized activity in…

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Bellingham Public Library notifying patrons of data breach

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Dissent

asmith reports that the Bellingham Public Library in Washington suffered a breach impacting 735 patrons.  The data, downloaded by an unknown source, included patrons’ names and birthdates, along with their library ID information. Bellingham’s breach notice, posted on their website, explains that the data were breached in a breach of Whatcom County Library System (WCLS),…

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Oklahoma City Housing Authority Provides Notice of Data Breach

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Dissent

 Oklahoma City Housing Authority (“OCHA”) is notifying individuals of data incident. To date, we have no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of information as a result of this incident. This notice provides details about the incident, our response, and resources available to help protect information. What Happened? On December 21, 2021, OCHA discovered unauthorized emails were…

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37,800 people sent privacy breach notifications linked to Newfoundland and Labrador cyberattack

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Dissent

Rob Antle reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest health authority has notified 37,800 people that their privacy was breached as part of last fall’s devastating cyberattack. That number equates to about one in every 13 people in the province. And according to Eastern Health, it could go even higher. Those affected include patients, along with current…

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CentralSquare settles one Click2Gov data breach lawsuit

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Dissent

Between 2018 and the end of 2020, DataBreaches published dozens of news reports on municipal breaches involving CentralSquare’s ClicktoGov software. The software allows residents to pay utility bills or other municipal bills online. Now Top Class Actions reports that CentralSquare has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle litigation by some consumers. Consumers whose credit…

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Israel’s Health Ministry website down after Iranian cyberattack

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Dissent

Adir Yanko and Itamar Eichner report: A group of hackers affiliated with Iran carried out a cyberattack on the website of the Health Ministry on Sunday, intermittently restricting access to the site from abroad. Pro-Iranian group Al-Tahira claimed responsibility for the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, which disrupts a website’s normal traffic by overwhelming the target…

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