Update: It was a Maryland student who did it. Brad Shear forwarded a notice he received yesterday concerning a breach impacting students of the Montgomery County Public School District. The cover email, from Luana Zimmerman of college career service Naviance began: Due to a recent data security incident in Naviance that affected one of our…
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Equifax data breach FAQ: What happened, who was affected, what was the impact?
We spent a good amount of time in the cybersecurity forum today talking about the Equifax breach. Here’s a summary of some of their key failures, reported by Josh Fruhlinger and based on A U.S. General Accounting Office’s report, and an in-depth analysis from Bloomberg Businessweek. Here are just two of the findings, as reported by Fruhlinger:…
Monterey Health Center in Oregon, Central Valley Regional Center in California both announce patient data breaches
On August 12, 2019, Monterey Health Center in Oregon became aware that they had suffered a ransomware attack. According to a press release issued yesterday, they were able to restore patient data, and were able to rule out any data exfiltration, but were not able to rule out access to the patient data. The types…
City Of Carrollton, Texas Victimized By Cyber Attack
CBS reports that Carrollton, Texas became the victim of a cyber attack Thursday morning. Some city services have been reportedly been impacted by the attack, which was only described as a hack without other details at this time.
Click2Mail issues statement to customers, acknowledges hack (updated)
As reported first by DataBreaches.net, Click2Mail was investigating allegations that they had had a breach. They have now responded to this site’s inquiry on October 4th with a copy of the statement they are sending out to all customers today, below. Update: In a follow-up communication, Lee Garvey, President and CEO of Click2Mail, informs this…
Imperva blames data breach on stolen AWS API key
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Cyber-security firm Imperva published today a detailed post-mortem report of a security breach the company disclosed two months ago, in August. The company blamed the security breach on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) API key a hacker stole from an internal system that was left accessible from the internet. Read more on ZDNet.