Brandon Lingle really laces into Judson ISD over their incident response and transparency in the wake of a June ransomware incident. It appears that the district paid an undisclosed amount of ransom to unidentified threat actors, but it’s not clear what they got for that ransom payment. It was a month before phone and email…
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WV: Prestera Mental Health Center reports an incident — but is it really a new one?
On July 20, Prestera Mental Health Center posted a notice about what they describe as a “recent” incident. Their notice, which has been picked up by other sites, states, in part: “What Happened? On or about April 1, 2021, Prestera Center discovered that information related to certain individuals was potentially accessible to an unknown actor…
Mobile County Commission notifies employees of data breach; threat actors dump more data
WKRG reports an update to a ransomware attack on Mobile County that was previously reported in June after SuspectFile broke the story of Grief’s attack and claims. As previously addressed in statements published by Mobile-area media, Mobile County recently discovered suspicious activity related to some of its computer systems. We immediately shut down and launched…
Convenience Store Chain Can’t Shield Investigative Report on Data Breach From Discovery, Judge Rules
We often hear of firms having their counsel running incident response and contracting of forensics, etc., so that any reports would be protected by work product doctrine as well as attorney-client privilege. But if the attorney doesn’t word the contract carefully, any report may not be covered by the doctrine. We saw that in a…
Trump-loving Republicans snatch up “magacoins” — and quickly fall victim to data breach
Travis Gettys reports: More than 1,000 people — including Republican leaders and conservative media personalities — have already signed up for the pro-Donald Trump cryptocurrency magacoin. Poor security on a website associated with the cryptocurrency exposed users’ personal information, including passwords and IP addresses, and revealed that the vast majority of the magacoin produced has…
Emma Willard School hit by ransomware attack
Kathleen Moore reports: Emma Willard School has been dealing with a ransomware attack that struck the school last week, school Head Jennifer Rao said in a letter to the school community. Personal financial information for some members of the Emma Willard community was stolen. Employees’ Social Security numbers were also taken, she said in the…