Indian River County
October 22, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
Indian River County officials are investigating a cybersecurity incident that has shut down employee emails, VoIP phones, and the county's website.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority
October 27, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has temporarily disabled its email systems after detecting an unknown external party manged to gain unauthorized access to its networks.
Chenango County
October 22, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Chenango County has suffered a ransomware attack. Hackers locked out employees and demanded $450 for each computer in exchange for the decryption key.
narendramodi
October 17, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
Researchers from Cyble reveal that donor data of over five lakh (500,000) people has been stolen from narendramodi.in, the personal website of Prime Minister Modi, and the details are on sale on the dark web.
Chatham County
October 28, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Chatham County is hit with a disruptive cyberattack.
Wisconsin Republican Party
October 22, 2020
•[ financial, government ]
Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the state.
Salem, NH
October 21, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The town of Salem, NH is the victim of a cybersecruity attack involving ransomware.
Hall County, GA
October 7, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang has released unencrypted data stolen from Hall County, Georgia, during a ransomware attack earlier this month.
City of Mt. Pleasant
October 7, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Mt. Pleasant has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, according to city officials.
Pitkin County
October 1, 2020
•[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
Pitkin County has disclosed a data sercurity incident where a file was left accessible via the Internet and was subject to unauthorized access.
City of Franklin
October 8, 2020
•[ financial, phishing, government ]
Town officials from the City of Franklin announce to have been victimized by a "spearphishing" attack that resulted in $522,000 being "misdirected to a third party."
NATO
October 12, 2020
•[ government, leak ]
Researchers from Cyble discover a post shared by an unknown threat actor that goes online with the moniker Spectre123, where he has allegedly leaked the sensitive documents of NATO.
Hawaii Attorney General's office
October 11, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
The state of Hawaii is investigating a potential breach of data within one of their systems tied to the Attorney General's office. Nearly 150 individuals who applied for a travel exemption through the state Attorney General's website were notified Friday about the potential breach.
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation
October 7, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is investigating "malicious activity" that affected the state's top regulatory agency, causing days of computer system outages and disruptions to online services.
Nicole Sifuentes Twitter account
October 2, 2020
•[ hack, social, government ]
Hackers also appear to have hijacked the Canadian Olympic runner Nicole Sifuentes to promote an additional bitcoin scam impersonating Elon Musk.
City of Odessa
October 2, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The city of Odessa has suffered a breach of its Click2Gov portal.
Georgia Department of Human Services
October 10, 2020
•[ leak, government ]
The personal and health data of children and adults involved in Child Protective Services cases was exposed after a breach at the Georgia Department of Humans Services.
Kate Ainge
October 9, 2020
•[ insider, misconfiguration, government ]
A Crown Prosecution Service lawyer is on trial accused of unlawfully accessing information about his judge wife's new lover.
Unnamed individual
October 7, 2020
•[ insider, misconfiguration, government ]
A Welsh police officer plead guilty to misusing Dyfed-Powys Police computers to unlawfully access information about the ex-partner of a woman he was in a relationship with.
Transport Malta
September 25, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
Transport Malta is hit by a cyberattack.
