Daniel Willers has coverage on the Blackbaud ransomware attack, noted previously on this site: The University of York has launched an investigation after personal details of students, staff and alumni may have been stolen by hackers. It said Blackbaud, which provides a customer relationship management system for the university, was hit by a ransomware attack in…
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Arkansas state vendor sued over data breach
Stephen Steed reports: A lawsuit filed Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court says the security breach of a new state computer program this spring led to identity theft of those seeking to apply for unemployment compensation benefits. The lawsuit claims that Protech Solutions of Little Rock, which was hired by the state to develop the…
Update on Click2Gov incident in Palm Bay
The city of Palm Bay has apparently had enough of Click2Gov concerns and is parting company with their vendor. According to a report on Hometown News, the city has received an update from Central Square about the potential breach it learned about on June 29: Central Square has identified a security vulnerability within their system;…
Personal info of Minn. law enforcement, critical infrastructure personnel published online in “BlueLeaks”
Tony Webster reports on how the “BlueLeaks” dump of a hack at Netsential, is impacting Minnesota law enforcement: A trove of Minnesota law enforcement data was published online after hackers broke into the servers of a vendor of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office. The sensitive information includes details about…
Id: Telkomsel Employee Arrested for Data Theft
Farouk Arnaz and Heru Andriyanto report on an incident in Indonesia: A man who works at the customer service unit of state-owned telecommunication company Telkomsel was arrested for allegedly stealing personal data of social media sensation Denny Siregar, police said on Friday. The suspect is identified by initials F.P.H., 27, who works at Telkomsel’s Grapari office…
Lawsuit against Pearson over data breach scuttled by injury claims
Sara Merken reports: A Minnesota federal judge has granted a bid by subsidiaries of education company Pearson to dismiss a lawsuit brought over a data breach that resulted in the unauthorized access of personal information from 13,000 school and university accounts. Chief U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis on Monday found that a legal…