Jen Fifield and Uriel J. Garcia report: Law enforcement officials served a search warrant at the home of a Fountain Hills man and seized computers, hard drives and other storage devices as part of an investigation into voter data theft from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office website. The property was seized Nov. 5. Read more…
AU: How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people’s data
Lucy Cormack reports: When the personal data of 186,000 people was breached in a phishing attack on Service NSW in March, the weakness cyber criminals were able to exploit was actually paper. Passports, banking and Medicare details were potentially exposed in photocopied and scanned paper documents stored inside the email accounts of 47 Service NSW…
Shirbit declines to pay hackers as it faces further threats of leaked documents, increased ransom
This is like watching a train wreck…. i24News reports: Cyberattack hackers said they’d leak more of the company’s data if it failed to pay $1 million bitcoin ransom. Israel’s Shirbit insurance company, which has reportedly been the victim of an extensive data breach carried out by the Black Shadow group, refused to meet a 9…
AT: Corona mass tests: Cyber attack and data breach paralyzed website
Josef Gebhard reports (translated): On Wednesday midnight, the website of the Ministry of Health went online, where you can register for the corona mass tests. For now, the offer is only available for Vienna, where the tests will start at three locations next Friday. But just a few hours after www.österreich-testet.at started , the first problems arose . Numerous users complained…
AT: Cyber attack causes chaos in the Braunau town hall
Mario Zeko reports (translation): “The IT servers of the municipality of Braunau am Inn were the target of a hacker attack,” confirmed Mayor Johannes Waidbacher (ÖVP) and city office director Andreas Reiter of the “Krone” yesterday. Who is behind the attack is just as unclear as the details of the crime. “The responsible authorities were informed…
NL: ‘Nightmare’ for the municipality of Hof van Twente: all computer systems down due to a cyber attack
deVolkskrant reports (translated): Municipality of Hof van Twente has fallen victim to a cyber attack. All computer systems of the municipality were shut down by the attack, the data stored on the servers was destroyed. This also includes privacy-sensitive information from residents, according to the municipality. It is unclear who the perpetrators are and what the motive may…