Will Racke and Anna Ortiz report: Lake County has been hit with a cyber attack that forced the shutdown of email service and several internal applications throughout county government, officials said Friday. [..] As of Thursday afternoon, the county’s IT staff was installing cyber security software on 3,000 individual employee laptops, Mark Pearman, director of…
Hackers successfully breach tens of thousands of Australian banking accounts
Alex Chapman reports: Tens of thousands of Australians have had their personal information hacked by fraudsters. Details, including phone numbers, names, BSB and account details linked to PayID was breached in recent days. Read more on 7News.
Lyons Companies Breach Notice
Lyons Companies issued a breach notification press release on August 23. Let’s skip the PR and cut to the chase, shall we? What Happened? On March 12, 2019, Lyons learned of unusual activity in an employee email account. It turned out two employee email accounts were accessed without authorization. One email account was subject to unauthorized…
MY: Astro customer data and personal details leaked yet again
Vijandren reports: We’ll if you, just like the rest of us here are asking – wasn’t this last years news, well it isn’t. We have just confirmed that Astro’s customer data and customer personal details have been breached yet again. A notice which went up earlier today on Astro’s official site confirmed that its customers’…
NZ: Ministry for Culture and Heritage investigating serious digital privacy breach
Passports, drivers’ licences and birth certificate details have been exposed to fraudsters after a serious Government digital privacy breach. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage says 302 young people supplied their details to it as part of an application for the Tuia 250 Voyage trainee programme. These were uploaded to an external website which was…
Portland Public Schools Recovers $2.9 Million Lost in BEC Scam
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Oregon urban school district Portland Public Schools is on track to recover roughly $2.9 million wired by district employees to a BEC scammer, after discovering the fraudulent transactions before the money left the fraudster’s accounts. Portland Public Schools is a PK-12 urban school district in Portland, Oregon, with over 49,000 students enrolled in 81 schools,…