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Nearly 800 people affected by possible data breach during College of the Desert malware attack last summer

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Dissent

KESQ has an update on a malware attack on College of the Desert last year: College of the Desert has begun alerting the approximately 800 people who may be affected by a possible data breach during a malware attack last summer. The malware attack occurred in early July. The attack took down the school’s phone…

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Little Rock school district seeks cyberattack disclosure guidance

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Dissent

Arkansas Online reports: The Little Rock School District is continuing to seek an attorney general’s opinion on the legality of holding private school board meetings when reacting to a cyber- or ransomware attack on a district’s electronic information systems. Little Rock Superintendent Jermall Wright sent a lengthy letter in January to the attorney general’s office…

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Another Texas school district with a data breach? (UPDATED)

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Dissent

LockBit has added White Settlement Independent School District in Texas to their leak site, with a proof pack that suggests that the threat actors were able to access — and may have exfiltrated — a lot of files. The listing was added yesterday.   There is no notice on WSISD’s website that DataBreaches could find…

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Minneapolis Public Schools tap dances around telling parents and employees what really happened

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

The bar has been lowered. Which bar, you wonder? The bar for how low entities will sink rather than just saying they experienced a ransomware attack. Becky Z. Dernbach reports:   Minneapolis Public Schools will open for in-person instruction as usual Monday, after a week of disruptions from “technical difficulties” and snow. In an email to…

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Misconfiguration caused data breach affecting Stanford University PhD applicants

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Stanford University disclosed a data breach after files containing Economics Ph.D. program admission information were downloaded from its website between December 2022 and January 2023. Last week, the university sent data breach notification letters to 897 individuals who submitted personal and health information as part of the graduate application to its Department of Economics,…

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L.A. Unified admits that at least 2,000 student records dumped after ransomware attack

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Dissent

Mark Keierleber’s article on The 74, noted on this blog yesterday and discussed by some of us on infosec.exchange, has apparently resulted in the district making some small admissions. Howard Blume reports: The Los Angeles Unified School District disclosed Wednesday that “approximately 2,000 student assessment records” were posted on the dark web as a result…

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