Sergui Gatlan reports: The Boston Public Library (BPL) has disclosed today that its network was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, leading to a system-wide technical outage. BPL serves almost 4 million visitors per year through its central library, twenty-five neighborhood branches, and millions more online. Read more on BleepingComputer.
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The Research Foundation for the State University of New York notifying 46,734 of breach
In a letter dated August 13, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York disclosed that there had been unauthorized activity on its network between May 22, 2021 and July 9, 2021. The breach was discovered on July 14, and reportedly involved names and Social Security numbers. They do not mention receiving any…
NC: Sandhills Center remains silent after threat actors claim to have hacked them and exfiltrated 634 GB of their files
Update of September 4: Sandhills subsequently issued a press release that indicates that they could not confirm that the data came from them. See the follow-up report here. Original post: Sandhills Center in North Carolina manages public mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorder services for the citizens of Anson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee,…
Trump-loving Republicans snatch up “magacoins” — and quickly fall victim to data breach
Travis Gettys reports: More than 1,000 people — including Republican leaders and conservative media personalities — have already signed up for the pro-Donald Trump cryptocurrency magacoin. Poor security on a website associated with the cryptocurrency exposed users’ personal information, including passwords and IP addresses, and revealed that the vast majority of the magacoin produced has…
Tokyo 2020 reportedly suffers ticket-related data breach
Michael Pavitt reports: Login identification and passwords of some Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games ticketholders has reportedly been leaked online. Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted an unnamed Government official, who said the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee had launched an investigation into the issue. Read more on InsideTheGames.
ME: York Animal Hospital hit by ransomware, lost all patient records for past four years.
Camille Fine reports: The team at York Animal Hospital has nearly finished manually reentering inventory data that was lost to a ransomware attack that wiped all patient records from the past four years. “Five phone lines have been ringing off the hook,” owner Bill Walak said Monday. “We’ve been inundated all day.” People have been calling to make appointments…