Justin Henry reports: By exploiting a vulnerability in a widely used file transfer application, hackers were able to access the internal information of several large organizations, including three Am Law 50 law firms, highlighting the vulnerability of widespread use of one third-party application. The incident has observers wondering: If some of the largest and most profitable…
Category: Education Sector
Jpn: Notice of apology: Email containing current student information mistakenly sent to currently enrolled students
Email errors are still a thing. Here’s an apology by Tokyo Tech to 10,000 of its currently enrolled students: A file containing personal information of currently enrolled Tokyo Tech students was attached mistakenly to an email sent on the afternoon of June 28 to presently enrolled regular-course students. The email in question was an announcement…
High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’
File this in your “You did WHAT?!” file. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports that after a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, Oak Park and River Forest High School in Illinois did a global replace, changing all students’ passwords to “Ch@ngeme!” to prompt them to change their password. What could possibly go wrong if you now know…
Costs of some 2022 ransomware attacks: Whitworth University hit with federal lawsuit, Little Rock School District tallies its costs
Whitworth University may start experiencing more legal costs stemming from a ransomware attack in 2022. Kip Hill reports: A Whitworth University student is asking a federal judge to approve a class action against the school for damages stemming from a ransomware attack discovered in July 2022 that affected more than 65,500 people. The lawsuit, filed…
More than a million NHS patients’ details compromised after cyber attack
Rebecca Thomas reports: NHS details of more than a million patients have been compromised in a cyber attack, senior health chiefs have been warned. A recent ransomware attack on the University of Manchester affected an NHS patient data set which holds information on 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals, leaks to The Independent have confirmed. Among the details potentially exposed…
Ransomware attack at Chattanooga State affects data of 1,244 people
Ellen Gerst reports: A ransomware attack discovered at Chattanooga State Community College in May compromised the personal information of 1,244 people, according to the college. The majority of the people affected had taken the GED test at the college’s testing center in 2012 and 2013, the college said in a news release Tuesday. Read more…