Akshatha M reports: In a serious security breach of Karnataka’s famed land record database, 19 acres of government wasteland in Devanahalli were shifted to a private individual illegally last week. In Gobbaragunte village of Devanahalli taluk, around 40 km from Bengaluru, land value is very high. The incident has caused ripples in the revenue department. Land sharks are…
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Click2Gov Payment System Security Breach
A reader kindly alerted me to the fact that the city of Tyler had reported a breach. When I looked into it, I see that it’s yet one more report on Click2Gov by Superion. This has been a known problem since last year, so why haven’t municipal governments updated and patched? RiskBasedSecurity had a more…
OR: Lane County Health and Human Services says more than 700 patients and clients had their files lost or possibly destroyed
Bryan Anderson reports: Lane County Health and Human Services announced the loss of 49 boxes containing patient and client information Tuesday night. The boxes contained 566 Community Health Centers of Lane County patient medical information files and 149 Lane County Developmental Disabilities client files. Those files included medical histories, addresses, contact information and social security…
PA: State Dept. of Corrections notifies employees, inmates of online security incident with third-party vendor
Fox43 reports: A “security incident” at a third-party vendor may have compromised the personal information of employees, inmates and others involved with the state Department of Corrections, the DOC announced Monday in a press release. The DOC says it has sent letters to those who may have been affected by the incident, which occurred on…
Some Kanawha County employees receive data breach notices after ComplyRight breach
Rick Steelhammer reports: Some Kanawha County employees whose health insurance coverage is issued through the county may have had personal information accessed during a data breach of the website of a cloud-based human resources servicing firm. Florida-based ComplyRight, which offers an array of HR-related data services to small businesses and government organizations, informed Kanawha County…
MT: Bozeman says security breach stole some utility customers’ credit cards
More impact of the Click2Gov breach reported previously on this site. ABC Fox reports: The city says some customers that used its Click2Gov utility payment system in 2017 may have had their credit information stolen. A press release from the city says customers who used Click2Gov to make utility payments between July 1, 2017 and…