School districts continue to be low-hanging fruit for threat actors. While Grief threat actors hacked and then dumped data from Clover Park School District in Washington, Booneville School District in Mississippi, and Lancaster ISD in Texas, Vice Society hacked and then dumped data from Whitehouse ISD, also in Texas. On June 28, DataBreaches.net emailed Whitehouse…
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CT: High school student charged after putting Hitler quote in yearbook
Denette Wilford reports: A high-schooler in Connecticut allegedly hacked into his school’s computer database, so he could put a quote from Adolf Hitler into a yearbook. The incident happened in May, when the 18-year-old student at Glastonbury High School popped a Hitler quote underneath the photo of a classmate, police said. Read more on Toronto…
WV: Morgan County Schools’ computers hit by Kaseya attack
Kate Evans reports: Morgan County Schools was one of many victims of a massive Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack that struck businesses and agencies nationally and around the globe. A Russian-based hacker group initially demanded $70 million to stop the cyberattack. School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle said at a July 6 school board meeting that…
Microsoft discovers SolarWinds zero-day exploited in the wild
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US software company SolarWinds has released security updates on Saturday to patch a vulnerability in its Serv-U file transferring technology that is being actively exploited in the wild. The attacks and the vulnerability were discovered by Microsoft, SolarWinds said in a security advisory published over the weekend. Read more on The Record.
Spreadshop hacked. T-shirt lovers warned of “considerably vicious” data breach
Graham Cluley reports: Clients of Spreadshirt, Spreadshop, and TeamShirts have been warned of a data breach which has seen the details of customers, partners, and employees fall into the lap of cybercriminals. News of the breach first emerged on Thursday when customers were warned by email of a “security incident” involving an “unauthorised third party.” At the…
Millennia Group notifying people of 2019 email breach
Ohio-headquartered The Millennia Companies are involved in housing management. On some date that this site does not yet know, they learned that there had been unauthorized access to some employee email accounts between October 21, 2019 and December 18, 2019. “The Millennia Companies immediately launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals who regularly investigate…