Readers may want to read the full LaFargeville report, linked below, because it provides information to school districts about best practices and recommendations for how to accomplish certain security goals. LaFargeville Central School District – Information Technology (Jefferson County) Key Findings District officials did not establish adequate IT controls over physical IT assets and non-student user…
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TN: Humphreys County sheriffs arrest two for forgery, identity theft, outstanding felony warrants
Darby McCarthy reports: Early Saturday morning, Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Team B Nights arrested Letia Leco of Camden and Richard Flowers of Jackson on charges of forgery, identity theft and outstanding felony warrants from multiple jurisdictions. Leco and Flowers were found at a hotel in Buffalo with several hundred forged commercial bank checks, over…
Federal Court Dismisses Data Breach Litigation
The following news item refers to litigation related to a data leak discovered by Dutch researcher Jelle Ursem that was reported in collaboration with DataBreaches.net. Shing Tse and Kristin L. Bryan of Squire Patton Boggs write: Recently, a federal court in Kansas joined a number of other courts in finding that allegations of future, speculative harm unadorned…
WI: Black River Falls School District closed Friday after cyberattack
WKBT reports: The Black River Falls School District canceled all classes Friday because of an incident involving unauthorized access to the district’s IT network. Superintendent Shelly Severson sent an email to parents Thursday night saying that student record system is unavailable, and the district has no access to attendance, medication records, family contact information, or…
Weekend potpourri of breaches and leaks
It’s the weekend, but breaches don’t take a break. Some breach or leak disclosures that I spotted in reading the news today: Ballad Health in Tennessee has disclosed a breach. As reported by WCYB, who also includes the full notice from Ballad, on or about January 13, Ballad detected unusual activity in an employee’s email…
HHS OCR Issues Annual HIPAA Reports to Congress
Chris Bennington of Epstein Becker Green writes, in part: The HITECH Act requires OCR to issue annual reports to Congress of HIPAA breaches and complaints received by OCR during the calendar year. For 2020, OCR reported that it received 656 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, 66,509 notifications of breaches affecting fewer than…