Jacob Segun Olatunji reports: The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has urged the need to curb the menace of data breaches in the country. He made the call when the National Commissioner of Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Dr Vincent Olatunji, led some staff of the Bureau on a visit to…
Bits ‘n Pieces, Saturday morning edition
In February 2022, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers confirmed a ransomware attack by BlackByte. This week they started mailing notification letters to more than 20,000 people. * * * In a bizarre incident, hackers broke into the ride-hailing service provider Yandex Taxi’s software and sent dozens of cars to the same location, resulting in a traffic…
IRS ‘mistakenly’ posts names, contact numbers and financial information from 120,000 taxpayers’ retirement accounts on its website thanks to human coding error
Ronny Rayes reports: The Internal Revenue Service ‘mistakenly’ posted the names, contact data and financial information from about 120,000 taxpayers’ retirement accounts. The US Treasury Department determined that a human coding error allowed the confidential information to be posted on the IRS’ website before it was taken down, the Wall Street Journal reported. Read more at The…
Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page reports: Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal information. In a brief notice, Samsung said it discovered the security incident in late-July and that an “unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.” The company said it determined customer data was compromised on August 4. Read…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Argentina: More than 14,000 Reports Last Year Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecution Unit registered 14,583 reports of cases associated with cybercrime, a 465% increase over the previous year. The #DatosEnFuga project attempts to improve security and data protection. It is an initiative of the organizations Democracia en Red, Fundación Vía Libre…
CSIRT: Cyber Security Alert: Public Service Incident
NOTE: The following CSIRT alert relates to the SERNAC incident previously reported on DataBreaches. The alert is reproduced in machine translation of the original Spanish. The Computer Security Incident Response Team, Government CSIRT , reports on an incident in progress that affects a government service, during the day of Thursday, August 25, which has interrupted the…