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Sweetwater Union High School District now admits February outage was a hack, but still hasn’t answered questions

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Dissent

There’s an update to a report in February about an outage that wasn’t described at the time as a hack or ransomware attack. Laura Acevedo reports: The Sweetwater Union High School District has confirmed a hack was the cause of a days-long system outage at their facilities, saying the personal information of employees, students, and families…

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NYC schools disclose student and staff information affected by MOVEit breach; National Student Clearinghouse silent on question of extortion payment

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Dissent

Jessica Gould reports: The New York City Department of Education estimates that the personal data of some 45,000 students was compromised as part of a breach involving the file transfer software MOVEit. Officials said the compromised data includes social security numbers, birth dates and certain student evaluations, though the specific types of data breached varies…

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Four senior residences in Pennsylvania disclose a data security breach in April

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Dissent

Four senior residences have disclosed that they were the victims of a network intrusion in April that may have compromised residents’ personal and protected health information. Senior Choice, Inc., dba The Atrium in Johnstown,  Beacon Ridge in Indiana, and The Patriot in Somerset reported an incident that occurred between April 18 and April 23. The…

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Former Highmark employee accused of misusing customer info to steal money from their health savings accounts

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Dissent

Jillian Hartmann of WPXI reports on an insider-wrongdoing case that has affected 8 customers of Highmark Health: Allegheny County District Attorney’s office charged Zakayah Scott who worked remotely from South Carolina for Highmark Health. Authorities said Scott had access to customers’ personal information including birthdays, addresses and phone numbers. They said she called Highmark’s customer…

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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports the update to the case of Joseph James O’Connor, a British national who was extradited to the U.S. from Spain and pleaded guilty in May: Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible…

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Stephen F. Austin State University students grow anxious about falling behind as school reels from cyberattack last week

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Dissent

Kate McGee reports: More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods are still working to fully restore email and other online services for the 11,600-student campus. University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

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