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Stephen F. Austin State University breach included counseling records

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Dissent

As reported by East Texas Radio: Officials have determined that 8,600 counseling records and about 100 people’s government-issued identification numbers were stolen in a cyberattack at Stephen F. Austin State University last month. The cyber-attack hit SFA, causing their systems to go down. When officials discovered what happened, the university removed internet connections to contain…

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Social Security numbers, other data may have been stolen breaches at Lansing Community College and D’Youville University

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Dissent

Mike Ellis reports: More than three-quarters of a million people may have had their social security numbers stolen in a data breach at Lansing Community College in late 2022 and early 2023, according to a law firm that says it’s investigating the incident. The community college notified “757,832 employees, students and vendors that their personal…

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College learns that two of its vendors were impacted by MOVEit breach.

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Dissent

Earlier this week, DataBreaches reported that Imagine360 had the unfortunate experience of discovering that two of their file-sharing platforms had both suffered breaches within days of each other: Citrix and Fortra/GoAnywhere. Today we bring you another double-whammy scenario. But in this one, it’s not two different platforms being breached within days of each other. This…

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If Kirkland & Ellis Can’t Avoid Cyberattacks, Who Can?

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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Jpn: Notice of apology: Email containing current student information mistakenly sent to currently enrolled students

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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High school changes every student’s password to ‘Ch@ngeme!’

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Dissent

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…

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