Denette Wilford reports: A high-schooler in Connecticut allegedly hacked into his school’s computer database, so he could put a quote from Adolf Hitler into a yearbook. The incident happened in May, when the 18-year-old student at Glastonbury High School popped a Hitler quote underneath the photo of a classmate, police said. Read more on Toronto…
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Tulsa Says Network Hack Gained Some Social Security Numbers
There’s a follow-up to the Tulsa ransomware incident previously reported on this site in May and June. AP is reporting that continued investigation by the city into the breach revealed that more than two dozen people had their Social Security numbers stolen and dumped by the Conti threat actors.
WV: Morgan County Schools’ computers hit by Kaseya attack
Kate Evans reports: Morgan County Schools was one of many victims of a massive Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack that struck businesses and agencies nationally and around the globe. A Russian-based hacker group initially demanded $70 million to stop the cyberattack. School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle said at a July 6 school board meeting that…
ME: York Animal Hospital hit by ransomware, lost all patient records for past four years.
Camille Fine reports: The team at York Animal Hospital has nearly finished manually reentering inventory data that was lost to a ransomware attack that wiped all patient records from the past four years. “Five phone lines have been ringing off the hook,” owner Bill Walak said Monday. “We’ve been inundated all day.” People have been calling to make appointments…
Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying it will defend itself vigorously. Marty Stempniak reports: Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself against a recently proposed…
Millennia Group notifying people of 2019 email breach
Ohio-headquartered The Millennia Companies are involved in housing management. On some date that this site does not yet know, they learned that there had been unauthorized access to some employee email accounts between October 21, 2019 and December 18, 2019. “The Millennia Companies immediately launched an investigation in consultation with outside cybersecurity professionals who regularly investigate…