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Germany said on Wednesday hackers had breached its government computer network with an isolated attack that had been brought under control and which security officials were investigating. A spokesman for the German Interior Ministry said the affected government agencies had taken appropriate measures to investigate the incident and protect data. “The attack was isolated and brought under control within the federal administration,” which oversees government computer networks, he said in a statement, adding that the...

The personal information of thousands of Marines, sailors and civilians, including bank account numbers, was compromised in a major data spillage emanating from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve. Roughly 21,426 people were impacted when an unencrypted email with an attachment containing personal confidential information was sent to the wrong email distribution list Monday morning. The compromised attachment included highly sensitive data such as truncated social security numbers, bank electronic funds transfer and bank routing numbers, truncated credit...

The library records of 20 people in Dublin were edited to include “entries of a highly inappropriate, sexually explicit nature” last year, according to an audit by the data protection commissioner (DPC). Details of the data breach were included in the watchdog’s annual report which also warned Tusla, the child and family agency, of its poor record-keeping after the Maurice McCabe scandal. The report details audits of the Irish Prison Service, Virgin Media, Three, BT...

Aldi said Wednesday a recent data breach in which two men reportedly installed bank card skimmers at two Montgomery County stores did not affect shoppers at any of its its five Lehigh Valley stores. The Illinois-based supermarket chain said in a news release that it notified customers who shopped between approximately Jan. 16 and Jan. 30 at stores in Pottstown and Limerick about the possible breach of their financial information. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that police were...

Nearly 10,000 customers who signed for pharmacy purchases at the ShopRite in Millville have been exposed to a possible data breach after the electronic device used to record those transactions was thrown out in June. Wakefern Food Corp, which manages that ShopRite, announced the data breach this week for customers of the pharmacy between 2007 and 2013. Personal information that could have been stored on the device includes name, phone number, date of birth, prescription...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators are asking witnesses about whether then-candidate Donald Trump knew that Democratic emails had been hacked before the theft was publicly known, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Mueller’s team also wants to know whether Trump was involved in releasing them in order to hurt Hillary Clinton and boost his own campaign for the White House, the network said, citing multiple sources. They have also asked about the relationship between longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone and...

Earlier this month, NBC News reported that Russians successfully penetrated the voter rolls of several U.S. states before the 2016 presidential election. The report didn't specify which states had their elections systems breached, so the Buzz asked state officials and local elections officials then if they knew whether Florida had been one of the states hacked. When asked, however, the Florida Department of State referred the Buzz to a statement it released last year when asked about the security of Florida's...

Bitdefender has released a free decrypter that helps victims of GandCrab ransomware infections recover files without paying the ransom. The decrypter is available for download via the NoMoreRansom project, of which Bitdefender is a member of. Romanian Police and Romania's DIICOT (Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism) announced the decrypter's launch in statements published on their sites, minutes ago. Europol is also expected to make a formal announcement later today. Arrests were also made, a source in Romanian law enforcement...

Cybersecurity company DarkMatter has launched a new smartphone that's right out of a spy movie. Called the Katim, it features advanced security features to stop people snooping on the contents of your mobile. Alongside Snapchat-style self-destructing messages, the phone has a cryptic "shield mode" that blocks off the microphone, bluetooth and camera to thwart any possible hacks. It's being billed as "the world's most secure phone" and was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress event...

Cybersecurity company DarkMatter has launched a new smartphone that's right out of a spy movie. Called the Katim, it features advanced security features to stop people snooping on the contents of your mobile. Alongside Snapchat-style self-destructing messages, the phone has a cryptic "shield mode" that blocks off the microphone, bluetooth and camera to thwart any possible hacks. It's being billed as "the world's most secure phone" and was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress event...