Cooper Sullivan reports: On the morning of April 14, the University Counseling Center sent out a feedback survey to 860 email addresses — some students, faculty, staff and 68 accounts unaffiliated with the university — in which the recipient list was unencrypted and visible to all who had access to the email. About 10 minutes…
Category: U.S.
Illinois Attorney General’s Office hit by ransomware? State investigating.
Threat actors known as DoppelPaymer claim to have attacked the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. And on April 13, the AG’s office acknowledged that they were investigating a network compromise: April 13 — Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced the Office of the Attorney General’s network has been compromised. Attorney General Raoul released the following statement:…
CA: Cyberattack targets Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Nico Savidge reports: A cyberattack targeting the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority last weekend has forced a days-long shutdown of many of the agency’s computer systems. VTA officials say they believe they have contained the attack, but key systems remained offline Thursday. The authority is still trying to determine whether any personal information of customers…
Elliman’s property management arm suffers data breach
Erin Hudson reports: Thousands of New York residents who live in buildings run by Douglas Elliman’s property management arm may have had their personal information compromised this month. Douglas Elliman Property Management’s three managing directors emailed hundreds of co-operative and condominium boards Monday to advise them that the company’s IT network — which contains data…
Kansas Department of Labor looking into possible data breach
Caroline Elliott reports: A KWCH investigation in February helped to launch a Kansas Department of Labor investigation after the investigation discovered a way to use social security numbers on the KDOL website to pull up anyone’s personal information. Eyewitness News reporter Caroline Elliott has been looking into the issue for months and Tuesday, April 20, Eyewitness…
11th Circuit Asked to Toss Out Massive US Data Breach Settlement
Izzy Kapnick reports: A $380 million settlement over the 2017 Equifax data breach is hanging in the balance in the 11th Circuit, where a tort-reform attorney argued Tuesday that the deal unfairly lumped all plaintiffs into a single class. During the cantankerous appellate hearing, a three-judge panel weighed whether to preserve the historic settlement arising…