Dave Herndon reports: Police were called to Salina Intermediate School after the assistant principal called about a student whose computer was hacked Jan. 6. Police came to the school and talked with the student and his father, who were both worried that another game was going to have them Swatted after the student’s computer was…
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PA: Pennsbury’s Computer System Breached, Incident Under Investigation
Tom Sofield reports: The Pennsbury School District reported a cyber attack had breached their network. In a letter to the public Sunday, Superintendent Dr. Thomas Smith wrote the cyber attack breached district data. There was no evidence an financial or personal data for staff or students was compromised. Read more at LevittownNow.
WA: Patient info possibly disclosed in Spokane Health District data breach
Erin Robinson reports: The personal health information of more than 1,000 people may have been disclosed when staff at Spokane Regional Health District opened a phishing email. The data breach happened on December 21, 2021. SRHD Information Technology staff were immediately alerted and discovered files containing client-protected health information may have been “previewed” by the…
Crawford County, Arkansas still impacted by ransomware attack last month
KNWA reports: Crawford County is still dealing with a cyberattack that happened around Christmas. According to the assistant to the county judge, unknown ransomware hit the county’s servers on December 26. Some limited previous coverage on the breach can be found here.
Chester County Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Area College Computer Networks
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Timothy Spillane, 39, of Chester Springs, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joel Slomsky to accessing a protected computer network without authorization, arising from his intrusions into the digital networks of two suburban Philadelphia-area colleges. According to court documents, between November 2017…
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab notifying more than 14,500 people after discovering multi-year misconfiguration of web portal
St. Lucie’s County Drug Screening Lab offers a variety of types of drug screening St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Indian River Counties. Juvenile & Adult Drug Screens Court Related Drug Screens Parent Visitation Screens (parent tests before & after visitation!) Random Drug Screens Pre-employment Drug Screens Employee Drug Screens (reasonable suspicion) Student, Cadet & Athlete Screens Teenager Screens (test your teen to…