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Cannabis regulators putting out ‘a series of fires’ involving a Russian oligarch and data breach

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Dissent

Tori Bedford reports: Thousands of employees in the Massachusetts cannabis industry received an official email last week about a major data breach: the name, home and email address, phone number and date of birth of every cannabis worker in the state had been made public in an “inadvertent release of agency documents” by the state’s…

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Former GOP Senate Candidate Livid After Air Force Failed To Notify Him About Release Of His Military Records

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Dissent

Zoey Khalid reports: Former Colorado GOP Senate candidate Robert “Eli” Bremer is livid over the Air Force’s failure to notify him about the branch’s improper release of his military records, which he first learned about from a reporter who was covering the latest developments in the problematic story for the Defense Department. Speaking to Fox…

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NYC Special Needs Students’ Records Found Exposed on Web

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Dissent

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Tens of thousands of documents containing personal information of special education students within New York City’s public school system were held in an unsecured database exposed to the internet. Researcher Jeremiah Fowler of security services firm Security Discovery told Information Security Media Group he found the unsecured database in mid-February and…

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Attack on WB CTC targeted financial info in Skyward system

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Dissent

Update:  BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the attack. There’s an update to the data breach affecting Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center, previously noted on this site. Mark Guydish reports: Guariglia said the FBI is still investigating and that there is no new information on what happened or who conducted the attack, which appeared to target…

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Top of the World Ranch Treatment Center notifies patients after email account compromise

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Dissent

Top of the World Ranch Treatment Center in Illinois has disclosed that a November 17 compromise of a business email account resulted in protected health information being accessible to an attacker. The attack was detected quickly and shut down within hours, and the treatment center’s investigation could not determine if any data was exfiltrated during…

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Has Oakland been hit with a second ransomware attack? (1)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Dissent

As the public knows by now, Oakland, California was hit with a ransomware attack by the Play ransomware gang on February 8, and has been struggling since then to recover. Data from the attack started to be leaked on March 4. Play leaked about 10 GB of files, compressed, and threatened to leak more if…

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