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MI: Troy School District website down after hacking from outside U.S., leaders say

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Dissent

Mark Hicks reports: The Troy School District’s website is down after hackers posted discriminatory messages Monday, officials said. The hack was discovered in the afternoon, the district said on its Facebook page. “Hate speech and graffiti was posted on all of our district websites and the system’s internal messenger was used to send emails to…

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High-schooler and her mother hacked school records to steal homecoming queen election, police say

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Dissent

Jaclyn Peiser reports: In a sparkling silver dress, the homecoming queen at J.M. Tate High School in Cantonment, Fla., stood on the football field on a brisk evening in late October to accept her crown. But among the students, whispers already had begun spreading about her victory. The homecoming queen had bragged for years about abusing the…

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Florida law firm notifies individuals of 2020 hack of employee email accounts

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Dissent

More than one year after it first discovered a breach, a Florida law firm is notifying people about it. While the firm’s notification suggests that it is notifying out of an abundance of caution because it cannot actually determine whose data may have been accessed — or acquired, an alternative way to look at this…

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Feds Eye Swiss Hacker Tied to Major Security Cam Breach

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Dell Cameron reports: Swiss authorities on Friday raided the home of a computer hacker reportedly under FBI investigation who has also—unrelatedly—taken credit for the recent breach of U.S. security camera company. The company, Verkada Inc., has itself separately been accused of granting employees extraneous access to the private surveillance feeds of potentially thousands of global customers. Read…

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Hackers Rushed in as Microsoft Raced to Avert Mass Cyber-Attack

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…

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Fastway Couriers Notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a Hack

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Dissent

Ciara Plunkett reports: The Irish Data Protection Commission says it’s received a breach notification from Fastway Couriers. The customer data impacted includes: names, addresses, email accounts and phone numbers, but the company says nobody’s financial data was at risk. Read more on KFM. Updated March 13:  NewsTalk has some more details: The company has confirmed…

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