Cyberattack incidents against local governments in the United States keep happening. Officials in LaPorte County, Indiana, have revealed that some of their systems suffered a ransomware attack that would initially have affected the county’s official website, in addition to some computer equipment and the government’s email server. According to system audit experts, two domain controller […]
Specialists in system audits have detected a new ransomware variant that has already managed to infect more than a hundred private companies and government institutions in the United States and, most recently, in China. Tencent, the company in charge of the report, claims that the attacks are directed from Asian territory. The report mentions that […]
The government of La Porte County, Indiana, paid a ransom of about $130k USD after suffering a ransomware attack that encrypted access to all their files. According to information security experts, the incident occurred after the U.S. decided that local governments should not yield to the demands of threat actors in such cases. La Porte […]
Indiana’s Attorney General has launched an investigation into a data breach at Medical Informatics Engineering, which has affected up to 4 million people.
The online hacktivist AnonGhost just hacked, defaced the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff’s department and publicly leaked its database containing login credentials of its employees. The attack on the Sheriff’s website was conducted under the banner of #OpUSA, an online operation where Palestine friendly hackers are targeting US based websites. AnonGhost left a deface page, […]
After attacking Indiana government website for passing Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), hackers have now started attacking anyone supporting the RFRA. The official website of an Indiana based Nonprofit organization ‘Right to Life’ was taken down by hackers in a powerful DDoS attack Tuesday morning for supporting the controversial anti-LGBT — Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The individuals behind this cyber […]
After Indian’s Governor Mike Peace signed the controversial “religious freedom bill” as law, the next thing the government knew was that their website (in.gov) got attacked and went offline with a powerful DDoS attack. The attacker is a group calling itself @YourVikingdomon on Twitter and has been taken down another 34 state, local, tribal and […]
Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) has reported that two of its backup hard drives containing information of about 40000 people involving their health and insurance details have been stolen during the transportation of the hard drives to offsite stores. The incident took place on 13th of February 2015. ISMA is unaware of how this is […]
Hartford City and Jefferson County, Wisconsin Websites Hacked & Defaced by Nob0dy Hacker A hacker going with the handle of NobOdy has hacked and defaced the official websites of USA’s Hartford City (hartford.gov) and Jefferson County, Wisconsin (jeffersoncountywi.gov) yesterday. The hacker also hacked 3 sub-domains from Hartford city server which includes the city’s department of parking, health and Hartford Department […]