Local8 reports: The Shelley School District was a victim of a ransomware attack. The attack was discovered on Dec. 6. We are told no student information was lost and all of the district’s financial information is also safe. They were able to catch the malware before it got to those servers. They reported the incident to…
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MA: Northeastern Cancels Vaccination Clinics After Third-Party Information Leak
Jay Willett reports: COVID-19 vaccination clinics scheduled on Northeastern University’s Boston campus have been cancelled following the discovery of registrants’ personal information being exposed by Pelmeds, a third-party vaccine provider. In a statement shared with WBZ NewsRadio, Northeastern said that the information was present on Pelmeds’ website. “As soon as the university became aware of…
TN: Pellissippi State Community College impacted by ransomware attack
Monday, Pellissippi State Community College announced a network outage. On Tuesday, they announced that it was a ransomware attack: Pellissippi State Community College has determined that the network systems outage appears to be the result of a ransomware attack. At this time, the breadth of the incident is under investigation. The College has currently contained the matter and is working to…
Florida teen and her mother accused of hacking homecoming queen election refuse plea deal, claiming they have been framed
In March 2021, news broke about a Florida teenager and her mother allegedly hacking votes to make her the high school homecoming queen. In May, it was announced that Emily Grover, who was 17 at the time of the alleged hacking, would be charged as an adult. Both she and her mother, Laura Rose Carroll,…
Ransomware attack hits French-Public School Board, employee and student data stolen
Phillip Blancher reports from Ottawa: An October 18 ransomware attack has left personal data exposed by the local French-Public school board. The Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario issued a press release November 30 announcing it had been attacked, and that after resecuring the network it was discovered that some files stored at…
Tulane University crime data breach exposes health records, sexual assault victims’ names
Missy Wilkinson Reports: Health records and names of people who visited Tulane University Medical Center’s emergency department, including for attempted suicide. Graphic information about sexual assaults and the identities of the victims, witnesses and suspects. All this and other sensitive information protected under federal privacy laws was visible to anyone with a Tulane email address…