Schools are off to a rough start this year. Apart from grappling with edtech and security issues in light of the increased use of virtual learning, school districts are being increasingly attacked by ransomware groups. These ransomware threat actors pose a double threat: they not only encrypt a district’s system(s) to make functioning impossible unless…
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West County provides notice of data breach last year; no identity theft reported so far
Sarah Haas reports: West County School District announced on Friday that, although it had experienced a possible data breach between Oct. 6 and Nov. 20 last year, to date it’s had no reports from anyone affected by that unauthorized access of information on a computer server used for summer school. Read more on Daily Journal…
Veterans’ Social Security numbers leaked in data breach
Corinne Reichert reports: The personal information of around 46,000 veterans was exposed during a hack, the US Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday. One of the online apps for the VA Financial Services Center “was accessed by unauthorized users” who diverted payments that were meant to go to health care providers for veterans’ medical treatment. The…
SC: In September, Roper St. Francis was busy sending notifications on two separate breaches
On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is notifying almost 93,000 patients. There are two unrelated incidents. The first involved the compromise of an employee’s email account in June that the…
CU Collections Notifies Customers of Data Security Incident
The following press release was released on Friday, September 11, after 5 pm. It appears to be the same press release CU Collections issued on July 29, with the exception that this one specifically mentions Wellspring Credit Union: CU Collections, LLC (“CU Collections” or the “Company”) announced today that it had suffered a data security…
Chesterfield County Public Schools battles hackers as school year begins
WAVY reports: Unknown users are entering Chesterfield County Public School virtual classrooms – a trend concerning parents as the school year is barely underway. 8News spoke with the parent of a freshman at Thomas Dale High School who recorded an incident involving an anonymous user in his virtual math class. Nicole Martin says the unidentified…