CBS reports: A disruption last month in the Maryland Department of Health’s reporting of COVID-19 data was in fact a ransomware attack, the state’s Chief Information Security Officer Chip Stewart said Wednesday. Read more at CBS Baltimore.
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WI: Neenah schools investigating apparent cyber attack; classes canceled Wednesday
Gabriella Premus reports: Neenah schools had to close unexpectedly Tuesday after the superintendent said it had what sounds like a cyber attack. The Neenah Joint School District discovered various technology systems down early Monday morning. Internet and phones are down at all schools in the district. Read more at Fox11. See this update of Feb. 4.
Connecticut company that hosts school websites recovering from ransomware attack
Jesse Leavenworth reports: A Glastonbury-based company that hosts thousands of school websites in Connecticut and across the nation continued to recover Monday from a ransomware attack launched last week. “We still have no evidence that any data has been viewed, compromised or extracted,” Finalsite spokeswoman Morgan Delack said. Finalsite has identified the cyber attacker and…
Missouri school district’s employee data dumped by ransomware group
It’s a new year, but we are still seeing old problems with the education sector being compromised by ransomware attacks on the k-12 subsector. Over the past weekend, threat actors known as Vice Society dumped data from Carthage R-9 district in Carthage, Missouri. When contacted about the incident, a spokesperson for Vice Society informed DataBreaches.net…
Maryland health workers, lawmakers want answers as problems persist a month after cyberattack
Steve Thompson reports: State health workers still often can’t use computers, access shared drives and get to important data a month after a cyberattack crippled Maryland’s health department, the head of a union representing agency employees said Friday. They’ve received little information about what’s going on and are preparing for the possibility that their systems could remain…
National Association of Community Health Centers to notify current and former employees of data breach
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) will start mailing letters on Monday to 935 current and former employees to inform them of a data breach last year. According to a copy of their notification letter that was submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, on October 16, NACHC discovered that certain systems had…