Brian Krebs reports: Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals. The collection…
AL: Tallapoosa County recovers from ransomware attack
Cliff Williams reports: Operations are slowly returning to normal after a weekend ransomware attack on servers at the Tallapoosa County Probate Office. Tallapoosa County probate Judge Talmadge East said no data or personal information was compromised in the Sunday morning attack and servers are allowing new business to be conducted. Read more on The Outlook.
ConnectWise Partners Hit By Ransomware Via Automate Flaw
O’Ryan Johnson reports: Multiple ConnectWise partners have had their customers hit with ransomware through a software flaw that the company revealed last week with one having several end users compromised, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Tampa, Fla.-based ConnectWise confirmed that the vulnerability in ConnectWise Automate – which the company announced…
Misconfigurations, Poorly Managed Access Help Drive Data Breach Risks
George V. Hulme reports: … A recent study conducted by IDC, on behalf of security vendor Ermetic, found that nearly 80% of the companies surveyed had experienced at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months. And 43% of those respondents reported 10 or more breaches over that time period. Read more about…
Ministry still tracing cause of Indonesia’s COVID-19 patient data leak
Antara News reports an update to a breach that first came to light when a data broker listed the data for sale on RaidForums. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) currently continues to trace the reason behind the alleged hacking of a database containing information of the country’s COVID-19 patients that was circulated in…
Deloitte Consulting sued in two states over unemployment portal data security issues
Last month we started seeing reports of data leaks or breaches involving state unemployment benefits application portals. We also started seeing reports of lawsuits filed as a result. Ben Szalinski reports that in Illinois, one of the nearly 32,500 applicants who had private information exposed said it was used to access her bank account. Briana…