Ed Kemmick reports: Forsyth Public Schools were hit with computer malware over the weekend, causing problems for teachers, students, parents and district administrators. The good news, Superintendent Dinny Bennett said, is that whoever did the damage “did not hack our system to take information, just to corrupt it.” The software program that ran the student…
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Washington University School of Medicine hit by phishing attack, patient info may have been accessed
KSDK reports: A third party may have gained unauthorized access to patient information — including names, birth dates and social security numbers — after a phishing attack at Washington University’s medical school. A post on the Washington University School of Medicine website said an employee fell for a phishing email designed to look like an official request…
St. Louis-area health care worker admits fraud, ID theft
AP reports: Sentencing is scheduled for this summer for a Missouri home health care worker who admitted in federal court that she defrauded senior citizens. Twenty-seven-year-old De’Janay Noldon pleaded guilty Monday in St. Louis to one count each of mail fraud and identity theft. Federal prosecutors say that while working early last year as a…
Former Philly doctor hacked into old high school classmates’ social media accounts, police say
Michael Boren reports: A former Philadelphia doctor hacked into the cell phone, email, and social media accounts of several former classmates at Burlington County’s Delran High School, from which he graduated in 2005, and then made copies of their photos, authorities said. Peter Grossman, 29, who lives in Center City, was charged with identity theft…
Daytona State College discovers second breach
Whoa. While investigating an employee W-2 breach that DataBreaches.net first alerted them to in February, Daytona State College discovered that they had had another breach – one involving student financial aid applications. The breach affected the personal and financial information of an unspecified number of students and their parents. Read more on WFTV.
KY: Estill County Chiropractic notifies 5,335 patients of ransomware attack
March 17 – On January 17, 2017, Estill County Chiropractic (“ECC”) discovered that an unauthorized user installed malicious software on its computer system that encrypted patient files. ECC immediately shut down the system. Although ECC was already taking security precautions, ECC replaced the system and included additional security measures. ECC worked diligently to restore files…