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Attacked by Black Basta, BankCard USA paid ransom.

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Dissent

Marco A. De Felice of SuspectFile (aka @amvinfe) reports that BankCard USA (BUSA) recently paid the Black Basta ransomware group $50,000 ransom. But if BUSA hoped to keep the breach and payment out of the public eye, they should sit down before they read SuspectFile’s reporting, because it is going to make them sad. BankCard…

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Arizona man who extorted Georgia Tech sentenced to prison

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Dissent

ATLANTA, July 27 – Ronald Bell has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for extorting Georgia Tech.  Bell recruited a security guard to falsely claim that the guard witnessed an assault by its basketball coach in exchange for part of the extortion payout he expected to receive from the university. “Ronald…

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Hobbs has questions about data breach that exposed ESA student info

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Dissent

Gloria Rebecca Gomez reports: A data breach exposed the personal information of thousands of Arizona students enrolled in the state’s school voucher program, according to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but the state’s top education official says it’s not a problem. Earlier this month, ClassWallet, the online financial administration platform that handles payments for Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship…

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid notifying 645,000 Medicare members about MOVEit breach (UPDATED)

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Dissent

Update: This incident was reported to HHS as affecting 1,362,470 patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has posted a notice on its site about a data breach at one of its contractors, Maximus Federal Services, Inc. Maximus was one of hundreds of victims of a 0day attack on MOVEit file transfer software by the…

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Hawaiʻi Community College pays ransom to attackers

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Dissent

Law enforcement and experienced ransomware professionals generally advise victims not to pay any ransom demands. Yet the University of Hawaiʻi Community College decided that they would pay following an attack that they first disclosed on June 13. So why did they make that decision? In a statement on their website this week, they explain: After…

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NH: Lebanon students to finally receive grades from June after cyberattack delay

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Dissent

Nora Doyle-Burr reports: Middle and high school students in the Lebanon School District are expected to receive their grades for the academic year that ended in June next week. The delayed release comes after some of the district’s key systems were taken offline as a precaution following a June cyberattack. PowerSchool, a student information database where…

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