WCAX reports: It’s still unclear whether personal student information was stolen during a system hack. The superintendent of the Washington Central Unified Union School District says in a letter Wednesday that its information systems were compromised. Interim Superintendent Jen Miller-Arsenault sent out a letter to families saying the district’s systems have been compromised as a…
Category: Malware
Cyber attack paralyzes Eberspaecher
The following is a machine translation: Hackers paralyzed the international automotive supplier Eberspächer with a major cyber attack on Sunday morning. The website is also down. To protect customers and employees, the necessary steps to counteract the attack were taken immediately after the attack became known, the company said. Read more on SR.de.
Breach at Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital affects patients and employees’ personal and protected health information
Sara Tomarelli reports: Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital has notified patients and employees of a security breach that potentially affected their personal information. According to a press release from Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital the breach was discovered in their system on September 7, 2021, when the hospital experienced a security incident involving unauthorized access and malware….
WI: Janesville schools hit with ransomware attack locking digital systems
Jaymes Langrehr reports: The School District of Janesville says it was hit with a ransomware attack over the weekend, locking students, staff and parents out of several web-based systems and programs. In a Facebook post Monday, the district said their IT team noticed irregularities in the district’s network, and an investigation found code in the…
Schreiber Foods hit with cyberattack; milk processing plants closed
Jan Shepel reports: Milk distribution was in disarray in Wisconsin this week as one of the state’s larger milk processors, Schreiber Foods, was victimized by hackers demanding a rumored $2.5 million ransom to unlock their computer systems. The cyberattack on the dairy processor came just as the New York Times published a front-page article headlined…
CA: Woodlake Unified District student and personnel data dumped after ransomware incident
Woodlake Unified District in California includes Castle Rock Elementary, Francis J. White Learning Center, Woodlake Educational Options Program, Woodlake Union High School, and Woodlake Valley Middle School. On April 11, the district took to Facebook to alert the community to a ransomware incident that occurred on April 9. Image: DataBreaches.net For months, the breach did…