Lucas Ropek reports: Watch out, firearm lovers. The subtly-named guns.com, a place where Americans can go to pick out whatever stylish boomstick they like and have it shipped straight to their neck of the woods, seems to have a pretty awful data breach on its hands. Back in January, a hacker temporarily disabled the company’s website,…
Public Notice: State Auditor’s Office efforts regarding Accellion data security
Public Notice: State Auditor’s Office efforts regarding Accellion data security breach As reported, a security breach at Accellion, a third-party file transfer service impacted the Washington State Auditor’s Office (SAO) in late December 2020. SAO first learned about the breach in mid-January 2021. Since that time, SAO has taken steps to identify the data files…
County auditor states CIC software for timeclock has been down since last Tuesday
Danielle Linton-Hatfield reports: During a regular Saline County Commission meeting held on Thursday, March 25, Auditor Karlin Breshears explained the CIC software server for the Saline County Courthouse has been down since last Tuesday, March 16. […] Northern Commissioner Stephanie Gooden estimated there are 11-15 counties CIC provides services to. “They have municipalities and school…
IL: Alton confirms ‘data incident’ in early March
Dylan Suttles reports: City officials are acknowledging a data breach occurred earlier this month. Alton Mayor Brant Walker on Tuesday confirmed that what he described as a “data incident” happened on March 5. Walker said the city immediately took steps to secure all of the city’s information networks. Read more on The Telegraph. There is…
Babuk threat actors leak data from US military contractor, PDI Group
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A major supplier of military equipment to the US Air Force and militaries across the globe appears to have fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The victim is the PDI Group, an Ohio-based company that manufactures a wide range of ground support equipment for military needs, such as dollies, trollies, and platforms for…
Fr: MND victim of a cyberattack
AOF (Translation): The MND group was the victim, on the night of March 22 to 23, 2021, of a malicious software intrusion on some of its servers in France and Austria. For security reasons, all the group’s servers have been disconnected and stopped in order to avoid any propagation to the rest of the information system. “This…