Robert Koch Institute
October 22, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, government ]
The Robert Koch Institute for infectious disease control had its website knocked out by a DDoS attack days before it was the target of an arson attempt.
Salem, NH
October 21, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The town of Salem, NH is the victim of a cybersecruity attack involving ransomware.
City of Shafter
October 19, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The City of Shafter has announced that its IT system has been compromised by ransomware.
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.
Puerto Rico's Firefighters Corps
October 15, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
Puerto Rico's firefigthing department has disclosed a data breach, and that the hackers demanded $600,000 to release the encrypted data.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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 Odessa
October 2, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The city of Odessa has suffered a breach of its Click2Gov portal.
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.
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.
Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority
September 30, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority was hit with a ransomware attack that blocked access to "vital" water and sewer service information.
International Maritime Organization
September 30, 2020
•[ hack, government ]
The United Nations' International Maritime Organization (UN IMO) disclosed a security breach over the weekend that the agency categorized as a "sophisticated cyber-attack" against its IT systems.
Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority
September 30, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
New Jersey WWS suffers a Makop ransomware attack which compromised files within its system.
