Margaret Simons reports: The private email addresses of hundreds of vulnerable Australian travellers stranded overseas have been accidentally revealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The addresses were included in an email sent to multiple recipients before midday on Wednesday by the Covid-19 consular operations section of Dfat. Read more on The Guardian.
People of Praise reportedly suffered a data breach ahead of member Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS nomination
Religious group People of Praise suffered a data breach last week, Catholic News Agency reported on Tuesday. The group has had increased attention given that on Saturday, President Donald Trump nominated one of its members, Amy Coney Barrett, to fill the Supreme Court seat left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “On September 23, 2020, our…
AL: Some Pell City utility customers may have suffered data breach
Taylor Mitchell reports: Some customers who pay the city of Pell City via paper check for their utility bills may have had their data breached according to the municipality and Valley Bank. City Manager Brian Muenger said the municipality has been informed by Valley Bank that some of the city’s customers may have had their…
Hackers hit South African government fund for children and missing people
Mfuneko Toyana reports: Hackers attacked a South Africa’s justice department fund last week, the department said on Sept 30, but said it did not receive any ransom demands. They targeted a fund containing a pool of money held by the courts in trust on behalf of minors, unborn heirs and missing or absent persons, it…
Yevgeniy Nikulin sentenced to 88 months for hacks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring
More than two years after he was extradited from the Czech Republic where he was arrested in 2016 for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, Russian national Yevgeniy Nikulin was sentenced today to 88 months by Judge William Alsup in federal court in northern California. Nikulin, also known as “Chinabig01,” “dex.007, ” “valeriy.krutov3, and “itBlackHat,” had…
Security lapse exposes hundreds of addresses of Minnesotans infected with COVID-19
Jay Kolls reports: In April, Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order allowing the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety to share addresses of COVID-19 patients with first responders across Minnesota. The governor imposed strict guidelines for sharing those addresses to protect the identity of Minnesotans with COVID-19. MDH and…