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Three months later, Georgia State Patrol still trying to recover from ransomware attack

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Dissent

Joshua Sharpe reports that three months after a ransomware attack on July 26, the Georgia Department of Public Safety is still trying to recover from the attack and regain access to its records. GSP, which has 360,000 cases involving tickets or arrests each year, can’t access its computer system or the digital records it holds….

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Northshore School District hit by significant cyber attack

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Dissent

KOMO News reports: A cyberattack has crippled some of the systems in the Northshore School District, which covers Bothell, Woodinville and Kenmore. The district is calling this a “significant” attack that’s taken out some phones and all voice mail servers, but adds there’s no evidence that student or staff information has been compromised. A notice…

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[CORRECTED] Peoples Injury Network Northwest notifies patients of ransomware incident

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Dissent

Like so many other ransomware incidents we’ve read about in the past year, investigators were not able to conclusively determine that patient data had not been accessed or exfiltrated. As a result, the Peoples Injury Network Northwest (PINN) of Washington recently notified 12,502 Washington residents that their data was potentially at risk from an April…

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Wolcott school officials provide information on district wide cyber attack

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Dissent

Rebecca Cashman and Patricia Del Rio report on how the Wolcott, Connecticut school district is responding to the second cyberattack it has experienced in the past few months. The district declined to pay any ransom, and it’s not clear whether the two attacks are by the same hacker(s) or not.  Read more on WFSB.  

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Mobile County Public Schools impacted by ransomware attack on vendor, back online now

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Dissent

You may have been a bit confused by the rapidly changing status involving Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama, who were impacted by a ransomware attack. Their site was down for about 24 hours, but is back up.  The ransomware attack was against their vendor, SchoolinSITES.

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Virus Cripples Most City-Owned Computers In Union City

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Dissent

Devin Fehely reports: Workers in Union City were struggling with a virus that has infected their computer systems and crippled most city-owned laptops and desktops, including many used by the police department. “An area that’s been hit for police is not only the mobile desktop computers but also the computers located in our building that…

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