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Ransomware threat actors dump NHS records on the ‘dark web’: Highly sensitive medical documents are leaked online after hackers’ £3million Bitcoin ransom is rejected

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Dissent

Last week, this site reported that a U.K. fertility clinic had been impacted by an attack on Stor-a-File, their document scanning vendor.  This week, there was more bad news for Stor-A-File clients. Michael Powell, Molly Clayton, and Kevin O’Sullivan report that Clop threat actors have dumped sensitive files on their dark web leak site when…

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DeKalb County School District virtual meeting hacked with obscene images

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Dissent

This week’s reminder to use secured Zoom accounts and not personal unsecured ones.

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Lakeside School breach — what happened?

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Dissent

On November 3, Lakeside School provided a notification to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office about a data breach. Lakeside School is a private school for grades 5-12 in the Seattle, Washington area. Because Massachusetts does not require inclusion of the kinds of details this site reports, we have almost no information on this breach other…

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A mailing error with troubling potential

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Dissent

We have all read about mailing errors by now. In fact, such errors are one of the biggest types of HIPAA breaches — providing one patient’s information to another, or a mail merge error, or something similar. But here’s a case in the U.K. that serves as a painful reminder that such breaches can have…

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NJ: Spotswood Public Schools notifying 424 employees impacted by a ransomware incident

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Dissent

Here’s another k-12 data security incident that does not appear to have made news or to have been revealed on a school district’s website (at least as far as DataBreaches.net can determine): On behalf of Spotswood Public Schools in New Jersey, Baker & Hostetler notified the  Maine Attorney General’s Office that Spotswood experienced a ransomware…

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Episcopal Retirement Services suffered two ransomware attacks in a one-month period

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Dissent

It’s bad enough experiencing one ransomware attack. Imagine experiencing two, because that’s what Episcopal Retirement Services (ERS) in Ohio has been dealing with. On or about September 24, ERS discovered that i had been the victim of what it describes as a cyberattack that impacted its systems and servers.  Then on October 22, they experienced…

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