In November, Crown Point Community School students returned to classes after a “network outage” incident that the district feared might be a cybersecurity breach. Now, months later, William Skipworth reports that the investigation into the cybersecurity breach could last another few months. The investigation, which has been ongoing since November, could last a few more…
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HHS Cybersecurity Task Force Provides New Resources to Help Address Rising Threat of Cyberattacks in Health and Public Health Sector
On April 17, 2023, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 405(d) Program announced the release of the following resources to help address cybersecurity concerns in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector: Knowledge on Demand – a new online educational platform that offers free cybersecurity trainings for health and public health organizations to…
Capita IT breach gets worse as Black Basta claims it’s now selling off stolen data
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: Black Basta, the extortionists who claimed they were the ones who lately broke into Capita, have reportedly put up for sale sensitive details, including bank account information, addresses, and passport photos, stolen from the IT outsourcing giant. A spokesperson for the London-based corporation, which has UK government contracts totaling £6.5 billion…
Dutch hacking suspects to be in court April 20; Dutch police try to warn others to “stop cybercrime”
There’s been a lot of speculation following the arrest of Conor Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) once it began to really sink in for some people that law enforcement has both the RaidForums BreachForums databases. One development that has contributed to the anxiety some people may be feeling is that the Dutch police have sent out thousands…
Hackers Stole School Data. The District Left Teachers in the Dark
More on the Tucson Unified School District ransomware attack by Royal. Jack Gillum reports: Classrooms across Tucson, Arizona, were ravaged by ransomware in January that locked up computer systems and forced teachers to revamp lesson plans. Officials in southern Arizona’s largest school district tried assuring students and staff for weeks that, despite the cyberattack, sensitive data wasn’t…
Fi: Hacked therapy centre’s ex-CEO gets 3-month suspended sentence
YLE reports: Helsinki District Court handed a three-month suspended sentence to the former CEO of a psychotherapy firm targeted in a major data breach. The court found the ex-CEO of Vastaamo, Ville Tapio, guilty of a data protection crime because he did not fulfil General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements, in terms of the pseudonymisation and…