Brian Hamrick reports: Multiple restaurants in Cincinnati are fighting cyber hackers who have stolen thousands of dollars, damaged reputations and shut down social media sites. “When it happened, it was instant panic,” said Arnold’s owner Chris Breeden. “Facebook is basically the most important advertising tool we have in our tool bag, and it’s pretty devastating…
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Receivables Performance Management reveals ransomware attack in May 2021
Receivables Performance Management (RPM), a business associate to a number of businesses, including those in the healthcare sector, has been notifying regulators and individuals bout an incident in 2021 that reportedly impacted more than half a million Texans and an as-yet untold total number of individuals. The Washington state entity revealed that on May 12,…
WI: Adams-Friendship Area School District hit by ransomware
A statement on Adams-Friendship Area School District’s web site dated December 1 reads: 12/1/22 Internet & Network Outage Update Dear AFASD Families, On November 15th, 2022 we notified you that our network and internet services experienced a disruption. We have recently learned that unauthorized activity was detected within our environment on or about November 15,…
NJ: With servers still offline, Hudson County Schools of Technology goes old-school low tech
Ron Zeitlinger reports: The Hudson County Schools of Technology (HCST) took a trip back in time to the 1980s for a second straight day Tuesday. The internal computer servers at the district, which includes High Tech High School in Secaucus and County Prep and Explore Middle School in Jersey City, remained offline, leading to a…
Little Rock School Board approves paying ransom
There’s an update to the ransomware incident involving Little Rock schools, and it’s not a happy one. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that at a school board meeting yesterday, the board authorized paying $250,000 “plus other fees.” The incident was first detected on November 11. A number of issues concerning transparency and compliance with Arkansas…
Little Rock School Board will meet to decide whether to negotiate settlement after data security breach
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday to decide on whether to negotiate a settlement to a “network issue” that was characterized last week as a “data security incident” that likely resulted in unauthorized extraction of district data. The district announced the special meeting Sunday…