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Virginia’s Fairfax Schools Expose Thousands of Sensitive Student Records

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Linda Jacobson reports: Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools disclosed tens of thousands of sensitive, confidential student records, apparently by accident, to a parent advocate who has been an outspoken critic of its data privacy record. The documents identify current and former special education students by name and include letter grades, disability status and mental health…

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It took an HHS complaint, but three years later, some Ventura Orthopedic patients are finally being notified of a ransomware attack

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

In August 2020, DataBreaches reported that the Maze ransomware gang had added Ventura Orthopedics to their name-and-shame leak site. At the time, Ventura did not respond to inquiries about whether they would confirm or deny the claims. And they did not respond to other inquiries from DataBreaches when the Conti ransomware gang subsequently listed 1,850…

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Boeing Confirms ‘Cyber Incident’ from LockBit Hacking Group

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Rojoef Manuel reports: Boeing has confirmed a “cyber incident” in its parts and distributions business days after a ransomware group published threats against the company. The acknowledgment came after LockBit hackers said on Friday they had tapped “a tremendous amount” of classified data from Boeing that would be leaked online if the company does not…

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Okta hit by third-party data breach exposing employee information

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: Okta is warning nearly 5,000 current and former employees that their personal information was exposed after a third-party vendor was breached. Okta is a San Fransisco-based cloud identity and access management solutions provider whose Single Sign-On (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and API access management services are used by thousands of organizations worldwide….

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Wawa Data Breach Settlement’s $3 Million Lawyers Fee Rejected

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Jennifer Kay reports: A federal appeals court has vacated over $3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded as part of a $12.2 million data breach settlement against Wawa Inc. The fee award issue now is remanded to the district court “to take a closer look at the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees in proportion to class…

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Town of Iowa in Louisiana victim of ransomware attack: ALPHV publishes a portion of the exfiltrated documents

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Dissent

Marco A. De Felice reports: The ransomware group ALPHV (BlackCat) has published a first part of exfiltrated data from the Town of Iowa in the state of Louisiana. Approximately 250 scanned documents in PDF format have been released, some of which contain visible Social Security numbers (SSNs) of employees, employee salaries, balance sheets, birthdates, addresses,…

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