Martin Slagter reports: Jackson County Intermediate School District officials took network systems offline after technology staff determined suspicious activity to be the result of a “ransomware incident.” Public school districts in both counties canceled classes Monday, Nov. 14, with the system outage impacting a wide range of building operations including but not limited to heating,…
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Surprise: Daniel Kaye, operator of The Real Deal, pleads guilty to one count, is sentenced to time served, and is released.
It seems like only weeks ago that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia was trumpeting the arraignment of Daniel Kaye, who had been indicted last year. Oh wait, it was only weeks ago. Kaye, also known as “Popopret,” “Bestbuy,” “TheRealDeal,” “Logger,” “David Cohen,” “Marc Chapon,” “UserL0ser,” “Spdrman,” “Dlinch Kravitz,” “Fora Ward,”…
U.K.: Suffolk police publish sensitive info of sexual assault victims online in data protection failure
Why would other victims ever come forward and report their assaults when they cannot trust the police to protect their reports? This is an appalling breach, and an “investigation” isn’t going to undo any harm that has been done. What exactly is going to be done to mitigate harm to the victims of this data…
New York-Presbyterian Hospital discloses breach affecting 12,000 patients
New York-Presbyterian Hospital posted a notice on their website on November 11. The incident has not yet shown up on HHS’s public breach tool, but undoubtedly will. Here is the description of the incident, as provided by the hospital: On September 8, 2022, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s data security monitors received an alert of suspicious activity on…
CO: Salud Family Health breached in September, leaked in November
On October 5, Salud Family Health in Colorado notified HHS of a breach, but only provided a “marker” of 501 affected. On November 4, they provided notice that said the types of information that might have been accessed or taken included in a cyberattack included: patients’ name, Social Security number, driver’s license number or Colorado…
Whoosh confirms data breach after hackers sell 7.2M user records
Bill Toulas reports: The Russian scooter-sharing service Whoosh has confirmed a data breach after hackers started to sell a database containing the details of 7.2 million customers on a hacking forum. Whoosh is Russia’s leading urban mobility service platform, operating in 40 cities with over 75,000 scooters. On Friday, a threat actor began selling the…