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Man charged for hacking Kansas water utility with intent to harm public

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice has indicted today a Kansas man on charges of hacking into the computer system of a local water utility and trying to sabotage water processing operations with the intent to harm the local public. According to court documents, the incident took place on March 27, 2019, and…

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GA: Cyberattack on Cobb schools enabled by contractor’s weak password, police say

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Dissent

Kristal Dixon reports: An attack on the Cobb County School District’s crisis management system that forced all schools into lockdown last month happened because of a weak password, according the police. The password was not created by a school district employee, but a worker with the AlertPoint security system used by the district, police said….

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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: On Jan. 11, Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. Now a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti…

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FL: School officials investigate possible breach involving firm they never used

Posted on March 31, 2021 by Dissent

John Henderson reports: Alachua County school officials are investigating whether students’ personal information was compromised after a data breach in a computer system connected to school meal programs. The district notified families of school children Monday that a letter sent out recently by PCS Revenue Control Systems Inc. — a company that handles computer services for reduced lunch programs — is…

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North Texas Woman Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Conspiracy Involving the Sale of Forged Prescriptions

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Dissent

There’s an update to a case involving theft of patient identity information to support a fraud ring. As in the previous press release by DOJ, they do not mention the identity of the entity whose EHR system was compromised or misused by the criminals. A search on LinkedIn, however, indicates that a Lydia Henslee, who…

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DeKalb, Austin schools notify parents about data breach

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Dissent

Kristal Dixon reports that a Georgia school district is notifying parents because of a breach at PCS Revenue Control Systems. This site had previously noted Polk County was notifying parents. ….  PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. this month sent letters to parents stating that the company in December 2019 detected an unauthorized access to files…

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