The Middletown Press reports: An end-of-year ransomware attack, which disabled access to critical business systems and applications for Middletown Public Schools, underscored the need to upgrade both perimeter and endpoint security recently. The district operates an enterprise network connecting 14 buildings with a high-speed (1 Gbps) fiber optic network. Over 6,000 users access educational, business…
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Cyber-attack threat is costly for Modesto schools. The total estimate may surprise you.
Ken Carlson reports: The costs of combating a recent cyber attack and securing computer services against further attacks will easily exceed $1 million for Sylvan Union School District. According to a budget study in April, the Modesto school district amassed $475,700 in costs in eradicating two cyber-attack viruses that took down essential services in the…
PH: Hackers breach database of UNIFAST
Mario Casayuran reports: The database of the Unified Student Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education (UNIFAST) has been breached by hackers. […] The data breach committed last March exposed the personal data of more than one million Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) applicants, Gatchalian said. He said the TES database containing the private data of 1,130,899…
LA: Madison Parish Hospital notifies 1,436 patients whose protected health information was improperly shared
Madison Parish Hospital Service District reported that 1,436 patients were impacted by an incident reported to HHS as Unauthorized Access/Disclosure of PHI located on “Desktop Computer, Email.” A notice on their web site provides some addition information: NOTICE OF PRIVACY BREACH We take patient privacy very seriously, and it is important to us that you…
Seattle University laptop containing 2,000 Social Security numbers lost
Asia Fields reports: Seattle University is warning that the names and Social Security numbers of more than 2,000 people could be exposed after a university-issued laptop was lost last month. Files containing information for 2,102 current and former faculty, staff and their dependents are accessible from the unencrypted laptop, which a university employee lost on…
VA: Arlington Public Schools Informs Parents of Limited Data Breach
ARLNow reports: An “error” in the data inputted to the college readiness system used by Arlington Public Schools may have exposed the name, address, grade point average and college entrance exam scores of nearly two dozen students to an unrelated parent. Superintendent Patrick Murphy was sending a message, below, to all secondary (grades 6-12) families Friday morning informing…