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The new minimization technique for breach disclosures?

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Dissent

Remember when “We take  your privacy and security very seriously” became de rigueur in breach disclosures? Now there’s other language being frequently added to breach disclosures — language that makes it sound like what the entity is about to tell you is really no huge deal, but if you feel you really need to protect…

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TX: Thousands of employees and dependents of Whitehouse ISD just had their data dumped on the dark web

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Dissent

School districts continue to be low-hanging fruit for threat actors.  While Grief threat actors hacked and then dumped data from Clover Park School District in Washington, Booneville School District in Mississippi, and Lancaster ISD in Texas, Vice Society hacked and then dumped data from Whitehouse ISD, also in Texas. On June 28, DataBreaches.net emailed Whitehouse…

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Fr: Ransomware attack on spa is anything but relaxing

Posted on July 16, 2021 by chum1ng0

On July 9, the Royatonic spa in France suffered a ransomware attack.  A notice on their web site informs people that as of July 12, the spa had to close because a cyberattack blocked access to their server and paralyzed all their activity. COMPUTER PROBLEM Royatonic regrets to close its doors on Monday July 12th….

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Booneville and Lancaster school districts dealing with alleged cyberattacks

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Dissent

Clover Park School District in Washington state is only one of several k-12 districts recently attacked by threat actors calling themselves “Grief.” The same threat actors also attacked Booneville School District in Mississippi and Lancaster Independent School District in Texas.  Note that DataBreaches.net has no information or confirmation to indicate whether either of the victims…

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94% Of Organizations Have Suffered Insider Data Breaches, So Why Aren’t These a Bigger Worry?

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Dissent

Sometimes, 2+2 does not = 4, it seems. When employees falling for phishing attempts represent one of the two biggest preludes to a ransomware attack, why are 28% of IT leaders in a recent survey more concerned about malicious insiders than human error? Why  are only 21% of those surveyed most concerned about human error?…

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Update: Clover Park School District notifies 1,583 impacted by ransomware incident

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Dissent

On May 26, DataBreaches.net reported on a ransomware attack on Clover Park School District in Washington state. The story had originally been broken by KIRO7, who had been sent screencaps by a district employee. As of May 26, and even as of June 2 in its last posted update, the district referred to the incident…

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