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Kemper Proposes $17.6M Settlement of Data Breach Claims

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Dissent

Insurance Journal reports and update on litigation stemming from a breach previously noted on this site. Kemper Insurance has proposed to settle a class action stemming from two data breaches in a deal valued at about $17.6 million. The dual breaches could have compromised the personal information of an estimated 6.1 million customers and employees….

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NJ: University Hospital recently learned of long-running insider-wrongdoing breach

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Dissent

The following notice by University Hospital in New Jersey is the kind of notification no healthcare entity wants to have to publish. It involves a rogue employee misusing their access to obtain information on patients that may ultimately be provided to personal injury lawyers or those trying to recruit clients or patients who have suffered…

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Judge Sentences Michigan Man to 7 Years in Prison for Hacking UPMC HR Databases and Stealing Employees’ Personal Information

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Dissent

There’s one more update to a 2014 breach that impacted 65,000 employees of UPMC. The civil suit by the employees settled in July, so this may be the last of the legal activity stemming from this case. PITTSBURGH, PA – Justin Sean Johnson was sentenced on Friday to the statutory maximum sentence of 60 months’…

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CISA Alert (AA21-291A) BlackMatter Ransomware

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Dissent

Technical Details Overview First seen in July 2021, BlackMatter is ransomware-as-a-service (Raas) tool that allows  the ransomware’s developers to profit from cybercriminal affiliates (i.e., BlackMatter actors) who deploy it against victims. BlackMatter is a possible rebrand of DarkSide, a RaaS which was active from September 2020 through May 2021. BlackMatter actors have attacked numerous U.S.-based…

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Student and personnel files from Manhasset Union Free School District appear on the dark web (UPDATED)

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Dissent

On October 7, the Manhasset Union Free School District revealed that it may have been the victim of a ransomware attack. There can no longer be any doubt that they were attacked. Over the weekend, Vice Society threat actors dumped the district’s data on their dark web leak site. Inspection of some of the files…

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Popular student monitoring software could have exposed thousands to hacks

Posted on October 18, 2021 by Dissent

Mark Keierleber reports: A monitoring company that thousands of schools used during remote and hybrid learning to ensure students were on task may have inadvertently exposed millions of kids to hackers online, according to a September report by the security software company McAfee. The research, conducted by the McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research team, discovered the…

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