In November 2022, Pearland ISD in Texas informed parents and employees about a breach and told them that ongoing investigation so far had shown no evidence that any sensitive information had been accessed by anyone outside of the district. In June 2023, Pearland sent letters to 55,486 people whose personal information had been accessed or acquired…
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Data on as many as 100,000 Nova Scotia healthcare staff stolen in MOVEit breach
As most people know by now, there are a LOT of victims from Clop’s attack on Progress MoveIT. So many, in fact, that they posted an announcement to all victims, giving the victims until June 14 to contact Clop to negotiate payment to delete data. The Boots pharmacy chain in the U.K. was affected, but…
Ascension Seton reports data breach of websites
Olivia Aldridge reports: The Austin hospital system Ascension Seton experienced a data breach of two websites earlier this year, potentially exposing the personal information of certain users. Ascension Seton issued a statement Tuesday saying its legacy websites — Seton.net and DellChildrens.net — were breached on March 1 and 2. The hospital system said it has…
Pacific Union College was attacked on March 27. When will they publicly admit personal info was compromised?
That Pacific Union College (PUC) experienced a cyberattack is not a secret. The college even posted a notice on their website on April 7 stating that they were experiencing “Additional complications relating to the ongoing cybersecurity issue, which has recently affected some of our internal networks, phone systems, and web services. The remainder of the…
British Airways, Boots, BBC payroll data stolen in MOVEit supply-chain attack
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app. Microsoft reckons the Clop ransomware crew stole the information. British Airways, the BBC, and Boots were not hit directly. Instead, payroll services…
Mission Community Hospital attackers exploited vulnerabilites in Paragon and Cisco
As Mission Community Hospital in California continues to investigate a cyberattack in April, more details have emerged as to how the attack by RansomHouse threat actors occurred. As previously reported, the RansomHouse listing for Mission Community Hospital claimed to have 2.5 TB of data and provided some proof of claims. RansomHouse also included a note…