Data breaches putting domestic abuse victims’ lives at risk, says UK watchdog

Councils, police forces and hospitals are putting women’s lives at risk by accidentally disclosing domestic abuse victims’ addresses to perpetrators, the UK’s information watchdog has said. John Edwards, the information commissioner, who has reprimanded seven organisations in just over a Read More …

California: City of Hayward says computer network restored 2 weeks after cyberattack discovered

Officials in the city of Hayward announced that the city’s internal computer network has been restored following a ransomware attack that took systems down earlier this month. In a statement Thursday, city officials said the network was brought back on Read More …

North Carolina: Kannapolis didn’t alert public when cyberattack knocked out police dispatch

More than a year ago, a cyberattack knocked out the system used in Kannapolis to dispatch police and firefighters. You wouldn’t know that based on what the city told the public. Read more… Source: Yahoo! News  

Swiss administration hit by cyber attack

Swiss authorities are investigating a cyber attack on the IT company Xplain, whose clients include many federal and cantonal government departments, including the army and customs. The online attack was revealed on Saturday by the newspaper Le Temps, which reported Read More …

Capita cyber-attack: 90 organisations report data breaches

About 90 organisations have reported breaches of personal information held by Capita after the outsourcing group suffered a cyber-attack, Britain’s data watchdog has said. The company, which runs crucial services for local councils, the military and the NHS, experienced the Read More …

More UK councils caught by Capita’s open AWS bucket blunder

The bad news train keeps rolling for Capita, with more local British councils surfacing to say their data was put on the line by an unsecured AWS bucket, and, separately, pension clients warning of possible data theft in March’s mega Read More …

FCA urges Capita clients to ascertain if data was compromised in cyber-attack

The City regulator has contacted Capita’s corporate clients urging them to ascertain whether their customers’ data has been compromised after a cyber-attack on the outsourcer in March. The Financial Conduct Authority said it had written to firms it regulates and Read More …

Cyber Attacks Hit in Massachusetts and South Carolina

Lowell, which is Massachusetts’ fourth largest city, discovered a cyber intrusion early last week, and its response saw many city systems taken offline. Meanwhile, Spartanburg County, S.C., was struck by ransomware, too. Spartanburg County, S.C., — a community of roughly Read More …

Failed IT systems at Capita fuel fears of cyber-attack on crucial NHS provider

Computer systems have abruptly stopped working at the outsourcing group Capita, knocking out council phone lines and triggering fears that the company that runs crucial operations for the NHS and the military could be under cyber-attack. Capita staff are understood Read More …