The Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri has notified 349,246 employees and retirees of a security incident that occurred on September 11. According to their notification letter, an employee’s email account was accessed by an unauthorized individual for less than one hour on that date before IT disabled the account after being…
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Quebec’s Bill 64 Introduces Unique Cyber Incident Reporting Obligations
Charles S. Morgan, Ellen Yifan Chen, and Philippe April of McCarthy Tétrault LLP write: The Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions respecting the Protection of Personal Information (“Bill 64” or the “Bill”)[1] received royal assent on September 22, 2021, introducing new obligations for private sector businesses in Québec phased over the course of three years. […] it is important…
UK: Schools email marketing company told us to go away when we told them of exposed database creds, say infoseccers
Gareth Corfield reports: An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website. Not only that, but the Schools Marketing Company (SMC) seemingly dismissed the findings of the infosec company which…
“Shoot the Messenger,” Friday edition: Homewood Health resorts to threats and a court order?
In July of this year, CTV News in Canada and DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving Homewood Health in Canada. Both CTV and this site had become aware of the breach when data allegedly from Homewood showed up on a leak site called Marketo. Marketo claimed to have almost 300 GB of Homewood’s data for…
US govt reveals three more ransomware attacks on water treatment plants this year
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ransomware gangs have silently hit three US water and wastewater treatment facilities this year, in 2021, the US government said in a joint cybersecurity advisory published today by the FBI, NSA, CISA, and the EPA. The attacks —which had been previously unreported— took place in March, July, and August and hit facilities in Nevada,…
3D printing site Thingiverse suffers major user data breach
Mayank Sharma reports: About 228,000 users of popular 3D printing platform Thingiverse have reportedly had their authentication details stolen and published on the dark web. The news of the leak doesn’t come from Thingiverse itself, but rather from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), which got hold of the leaked details of the compromised accounts after receiving a tip…