Stacey Scott reports: Massachusetts health officials are warning over 134,000 individuals who are currently or were previously enrolled in certain state programs that their personal information has been involved in a recent third-party data security breach. The breach is part of a worldwide incident that involves a file-transfer software program called “MOVEit.” UMass Chan Medical…
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Prince George’s County Public Schools responding to cyberattack
Fox5 in D.C. reports Prince George’s County Public Schools revealed Monday its network experienced a cyber attack. The August 14 notice on the district’s website reads: August 14, 2023 – Update on PGCPS Network Outage Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) experienced a cyber attack on the system’s network that was detected early Monday morning, Aug….
Hackers may have stolen SSNs, other info from Coastal Orthopedics
The Bradenton Herald reports: Sensitive information — including Social Security numbers, birthdays and addresses — for current and former patients at Coastal Orthopedics may have been compromised after an attacker hacked into the company’s system. The company detected suspicious activity on its network around June 11, prompting an investigation, according to a press release. Although…
Discord.io confirms breach after hacker steals data of 760K users
Data allegedly from 760,000 Discord.io registered users was listed for sale yesterday on a popular hacking forum. By the end of the day, Discord.io had confirmed a breach. Lawrence Abrams reports: The Discord.io custom invite service has temporarily shut down after suffering a data breach exposing the information of 760,000 members. Discord.io is not an…
Three managers picked up; 2 others invited for breaching Ghana data protection law
GNA reports: Three managers were arrested on Monday by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service for breaching the Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843). The three institutions are Hisense, an electronic goods dealership, Marwako Fast Foods and Agyabeng Akrasi and Co Limited, a law firm….
UK: Press notice regarding data breach at Norfolk and Suffolk police
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies have identified an issue relating to a very small percentage of responses to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for crime statistics, issued between April 2021 and March 2022. A technical issue has led to some raw data belonging to the constabularies being included within the files produced in response to the…