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VCU Health identifies and addresses a 16-year privacy breach

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dissent

Soap operas are almost always long-running. Privacy breaches should not be, and 16 years is a very long time for a problem to go undetected. But it appears that’s what happened to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (“VCU Health”). Last month, VCU Health disclosed that they had recently learned that beginning as early as…

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Claire’s data breach $350K class action settlement

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dissent

Top Class Actions reports that there is a settlement in litigation stemming from a data breach involving customer information in a 2020 breach that affected some customers of Claire’s accessories stores. For approximately two months in 2020, malware compromised payments made on the retailer’s website. The case is Julia Rossi, et al v. Claire’s Stores,…

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Ca: College of the Desert victimized once again by ransomware; most online services currently down

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Dissent

Jonathan Horwitz reports: The College of the Desert has fallen victim to a second successful malware attack against its online network in as many years. Currently, most of the college’s online services are offline, its website is not available and at least some employees are lacking access to their email accounts, COD public information officer Nicholas Robles confirmed…

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EXCLUSIVE: Marriott hacked again? Yes. Here’s what we know.

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Dissent

On June 28, DataBreaches received a message from an unrecognized sender. The subject was:  “Breach of Marriott hotels! Very Important!” DataBreaches’ first thought was, “Seriously? Is this yet another breach involving Marriott or are some kids just trying to leak old data?” As it turned out, this was, in fact, a new breach. But how…

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Cyberattack suspends Cedar Rapids summer school activities

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Dissent

The Gazette reports: A cyberattack discovered over the holiday weekend has caused the Cedar Rapids Community School District to suspend summer programming until July 11, the district said. Its announcement did not describe the nature of the attack or say which systems it targeted. Read more at The Gazette.  

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Update on Plainedge School District ransomware attack

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Dissent

On June 15, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat threat actors had added Plainedge School District in New York to their dedicated leak site. At the time, BlackCat (aka ALPHV) only offered a few files as proof but warned more data would be leaked if they did not hear from the district. The threat actors subsequently dumped…

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