NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that they have secured $5.1 million from educational technology company Illuminate Education, Inc. (Illuminate) for failing to protect students’ data. Illuminate provides software to schools and school districts across the country to track students’ attendance…
The Congressional Budget Office was hacked. It says it has implemented new security measures.
Fatima Hussein reports: The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday confirmed it had been hacked, potentially disclosing important government data to malicious actors. The small government office, with some 275 employees, provides objective, impartial analysis to support lawmakers during the budget process. It is required to produce a cost estimate for nearly every bill approved by…
Clop Ransomware group claims the breach of The Washington Post
Pierluigi Paganini reports: The Clop Ransomware group announced the hack of the prestigious American daily newspaper The Washington Post. The cybercrime group created a page for the university on its Tor data leak site and announced it will leak the stolen data soon. The group claimed the company was breached due to its neglect of security, despite its…
EU Parliament committee votes to advance controversial Europol data sharing proposal
Suzanne Smalley reports: Lawmakers in the European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday voted to greenlight a proposal which would allow Europol to expand data sharing and biometric data collection as part of its effort to fight human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), which approved the package, will now send the proposal to a full…
Pro-Russian hackers target Belgian telecom websites in DDoS attack
Belgian News Agency reports: A DDoS cyberattack briefly disrupted the websites of Belgian telecom operators Proximus and Scarlet on Wednesday morning. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. Ghent University Hospital was also hit by a DDoS attack around the same time. Proximus spokesperson Fabrice Gansbeke confirmed that technicians detected…
Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months
Mark Pearson reports: According to an official document newly released by the Nevada office responsible for the state’s technology infrastructure, Nevada’s state systems sat unknowingly compromised for three months before officials noticed a major ransomware attack and flagged it up in August. […] The perpetrators compromised a password vault server to harvest credentials from 26…