California-based Accellion has already released statements about a breach they experienced. And they have already been hit with at least one lawsuit over the breach. But we are still first learning about how some of their clients were impacted. Today we learned that the University of Colorado is investigating whether there was any personal, confidential,…
Category: Breach Incidents
FR: Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers et des professionnels de la santé et du social (MNH) discloses cyberattack
(translation of statement on their web site): The MNH has been undergoing a cyber attack since Friday, February 5, 2021 . Computer systems have been disconnected for security reasons. Our websites (mnh.fr, members’ area, corresponding and elected extranets) as well as our telephone platform (3031) are temporarily unavailable. The processing times for your requests are extended. Believe that we…
NC: Stolen Chatham county data posted online after cyber incident, includes personnel files, other sensitive documents
Bill Horner III, Hannah McLellan, & D. Lars Dolder report: Sensitive data files stolen following Chatham County’s Oct. 28 governmental “cyber incident” have been posted online by the criminal enterprise responsible, the News + Record has learned. The files include such things as personnel records of some county employees, medical evaluations of children who are…
Update: Threat actors dump Somerset ISD student personal and health information
As this site reported yesterday, Somerset Independent School District in Texas was reportedly attacked by Avaddon threat actors. Somerset has not responded to inquiries by this site and they do not seem to have posted anything on their web site about any breach. Yesterday, the threat actors dumped an archive with 1,520 files in 27…
Somerset ISD in Texas allegedly hit with ransomware — but were they?
Threat actors claim to have successfully attacked Somerset ISD in Texas with ransomware. But did they? Were functions interrupted at all by files being encrypted? Were phones, email, or internet knocked out at all? DataBreaches.net has seen no local news reports of any of that, and there does not appear to be any notice or…
The Blackbaud ransomware breach — impact on school clients
In July, 2020, cloud software firm Blackbaud announced that it had been the victim of a ransomware attack that began in February of 2020 and continued until Blackbaud was able to kick the attackers out of their system in May. In order to try to protect their clients from having personal and sensitive information on…