As posted on their web site on March 20, KWC reveals an incident that they became aware of in September 2020. Kentucky Wesleyan College experienced a Network Security Incident, resulting in the temporary loss of availability to its files and systems. We have since resolved the Incident and implemented additional security measures. Although there was…
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AZ: Maricopa Community Colleges cancel classes amid cybersecurity issue
KTAR reports: The Maricopa County Community College District announced Friday it has canceled classes until March 29 after a cybersecurity issue forced its network system offline. In a statement on its website, the district said the network outage was due to suspicious activity that appears to be related to a potential cyber attack. Read more on KTAR…
MA: Stratus Technologies posts about ransomware attack
From an urgent notice on their web site: On March 17, 2021, Stratus Technologies, Inc. was the victim of a ransomware event. Upon detecting suspicious activity, we took several systems offline to isolate the issue and began to initiate our business continuity plan. Additionally, we notified federal law enforcement authorities and enlisted third-party subject matter…
MI: Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedic and Spine Specialists notifies 28,658 patients of breach
Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedic and Spine Specialists in Michigan recently notified 28,658 patients of a data security incident. The incident was reported to HHS on March 5 as a Hacking/IT incident. The practice writes, in part: On January 5, 2021, the Practice became aware that certain limited health information residing on one of its servers was…
MN: Minneapolis Police Officer’s Data Misuse Claims Head to Retrial
There’s an update to litigation stemming from misuse of a Minnesota state database. The case began in 2013, when Amy Krekelberg received a notice from Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources that informed her that an employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state,…
WA: Douglas County targeted as part of international cyber attack
Tony Buhr reports: Douglas County was one of thousands of servers targeted in a cyberattack by a group out of China. It was an international attack that occurred March 2 and exploited a weakness in Microsoft servers, said Brad Hudson, Douglas County management information systems manager. The attack required Hudson to spend Friday through Sunday…