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Fraudster who hacked SUNY Plattsburgh accounts gets 9 ¼ year prison sentence

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

Robert Gavin reports: A federal judge sentenced Michael P. Fish to 9 ¼ years in prison Friday, saying he depravedly hacked into the accounts of dozens of unsuspecting female students at SUNY Plattsburgh, stole their private photos and sold the images on the internet. With his family watching on a courtroom bench, the 26-year-old Fish sat in…

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Battelle for Kids ransomware attack compromised records of 560,000 Chicago Public School students, employee

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

Nader Issa and Lauren FitzPatrick report: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals Friday. The attack targeted a company that has a no-bid contract with the district for teacher evaluations and involved basic student and staff…

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Missouri man pleads guilty to fraud scheme that used stolen identities of Johnson County employees

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

KTTN reports: A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identities of Johnson County, Kansas, government employees to make fraudulent purchases. Michael B. Becher, 40, of Raytown, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to participating in a conspiracy to commit credit…

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NYC Education Dept. will roll out its own online gradebook after security breach and data hack

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Dissent

Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: The New York City Education Department is planning to roll out its own online grading and attendance system to replace a widely-used platform that was hacked earlier this year, exposing the personal information of nearly one million students. The new system, developed by the agency’s IT team, will launch in beta form…

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Settlement in Solara Medical Supplies litigation gets preliminary approval

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Dissent

As reported by TopClassActions, Solara Medical Supplies has agreed to a $9.76 million class action settlement benefiting those whose personal information may have been compromised during a 2019 data breach that occurred between April 2 and June 20, 2019. That would include employees and patients whose protected health information was in employee email accounts compromised…

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Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio hit by disruptive cyberattack

Posted on May 19, 2022 by Dissent

WTVG reports Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio has been hit by a cyberattack that has disrupted much of its communication avenues including phones, internet, email, wifi networks, and Google classroom. Read more at WTVG, although they are only in beginning stages of investigating and responding to the incident.

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