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”
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…
FL: School officials investigate possible breach involving firm they never used
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…
North Texas Woman Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Conspiracy Involving the Sale of Forged Prescriptions
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…
DeKalb, Austin schools notify parents about data breach
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…
Russian hackers stole emails from Trump’s cybersecurity team: ‘We’re talking the crown jewels’
Travis Gettys reports: Suspected Russian hackers stole emails belonging to top officials in the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security, including members of its cybersecurity staff. The Biden administration has tried not to reveal the scope of the breach as it considers retaliatory measures against Russia, but the Associated Press found new details about the hack of…