Stephanie Towers reports: An Upstate school district dealt with an internet outage Tuesday morning. The Pickens County School District said the outages on school and student devices were caused by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services. “I want to be clear it wasn’t a DDOS…
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“Blue Leaks” data breach also affected SD COVID-19 patients
Angela Kennecke reports: The so called “BlueLeaks” data breach, which compromised the information of hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers across the nation in June, has a whole new twist tonight that involves South Dakota and people who tested positive for COVID-19. KELOLAND Investigates has obtained a letter sent by the director of the…
Baugo Community Schools dealing with cyber attack
WNDU in Indiana reports that the unnamed ISP for Baugo Community Schools has been the target of cyberattacks that began Monday morning. Officials say no Baugo Community Schools data has been compromised. However, the cyber attacks have disrupted virtual learning. Read more on WNDU.
Jefferson Parish Schools data breach exposes 86 students’ information
Faimon Roberts reports: A data breach that exposed 86 Jefferson Parish public school students’ confidential student portal log information to more than 40,000 families was caused by a problem with a vendor, a school system spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. […] When system officials began to receive calls about the problem, they contacted EdGear, the vendor that…
Report: “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking:” GitHub Leaks of Protected Health Information
The message request showed up in my Twitter notifications: Hi There! 🙂 I see you have some experience in getting the right amount of attention for medicaid related data leaks. I have found admin credentials to some super sensitive medical billing processing system and get nothing but silence on all available contact channels and no…
TX: Cyber attack affects Hudson ISD website
As noted previously on this site, there have recently been a number of attacks on school districts in eastern Texas. Here’s another report on the situation that links the attacks to some districts’ cloud-based hosting service. Grace Juarez reports: Hudson ISD’s website was down throughout the weekend and Monday after a cyber attack affected the…