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Impacts of Department of Health data breach remain unknown

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Dissent

CJ Baker reports: The Wyoming Department of Health knows it accidentally published the personal information of 164,000 residents on a public website earlier this year. But it remains a mystery as to whether any bad actors accessed the data before the department discovered the mistake and took the files offline. The roughly 54 files that…

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WI: Menominee Casino Resort temporarily closes after cyberattack

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Dissent

Ben Bokun and Alice Reid report: The Menominee Casino Resort confirms it’s experiencing technical difficulties following a cyberattack. A statement from the casino said the issues were caused by an “attempted external attack on our computer systems.” Tribal Legislature Chairman Gunnar Peters told NBC 26 the security breach happened Friday. The hit to the casino was…

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A Fire And Cyberattack Cause Major Blackouts Across Puerto Rico

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Dissent

Jaclyn Diaz reports: A large fire at an electrical substation for Puerto Rico’s new electricity provider, Luma Energy, knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of the island’s residents Thursday. At the height of the blackout, nearly 800,000 customers were without power, according to Luma. By midnight, roughly 60,000 customers were still in the dark….

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Volkswagen says a vendor’s security lapse exposed 3.3 million drivers’ details

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: Volkswagen says more than 3.3 million customers had their information exposed after one of its vendors left a cache of customer data unsecured on the internet. The car maker said in a letter that the vendor, used by Volkswagen, its subsidiary Audi and authorized dealers in the U.S. and Canada, left the customer data…

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Update on Union Community School District ransomware incident

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Dissent

On June 1, DataBreaches.net reported that DoppelPaymer threat actors had apparently attacked Union Community School District in Iowa and exfiltrated data about employees and students. Neither the district’s superintendent  nor any board of education members had responded to this site’s inquiries about whether there had been any public disclosure of the breach that occurred in…

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Healthcare entities in Saudi Arabia, Illinois, and Mississippi fall prey to Xing Team

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Dissent

Note: updates to the breaches included in this report appear below the original post. Some threat actors have gained a lot of notoriety while others are lesser known. In this article, DataBreaches.net reports on a relatively unknown group that has been hitting the healthcare sector, “Xing Team.” Like other groups, Xing maintains a dedicated leak…

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