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A total of 1,230 people, including victims of crime and witnesses, have had their data breached by Norfolk and Suffolk police forces. The constabularies said the personal information was included in Freedom of Information (FOI) responses due to a “technical Read More …
Computer hackers accessed the personal information of at least 26,212 Texans in the recent ransomware attack on the city of Dallas, according to an official disclosure made public Monday on the Texas attorney general’s web site, three months after the Read More …
On Wednesday, PSNI revealed an earlier data breach: a police-issue laptop, documents and a spreadsheet identifying more than 200 staffers were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, near Belfast, on July 6th. “We have contacted the officers and staff Read More …
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff. NI’s Police Federation said the breach could cause “incalculable damage”. In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had Read More …
Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the elections watchdog. The Electoral Commission revealed on Tuesday it was targeted by a cyber attack which allowed “hostile actors” to access electoral registers. The hack Read More …
A Ukraine-linked hacker group said on Telegram on August 7 that it had hacked the website of Moscow’s municipal property registration bureau (MosgorBTI) overnight, saying “the information about state officials, politicians, military, and special services officers who support the Ukraine Read More …
“Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. recently experienced a data security incident that has disrupted our operations,” said Nina Kruse, ECHN’s vice president for communications and public affairs. “Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched Read More …
Capita shares in slumped 11.4 per cent on Friday morning after it said a recent data breach could cost it up to £25m. The government contractor, which provides data and IT outsourcing processes, said this morning it expects a major Read More …
Obtaining data from telecoms firms in the course of criminal investigations in Estonia still goes on, despite stricter limits put in place by the European Union from last year. In April 2022, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that Read More …
Since November of 2021, US-based companies have been barred from doing business with the NSO Group, an Israeli research firm behind some of the most advanced hacking tools the tech world has ever seen. Come to find out, a New Read More …
