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Sequoia Capital Suffers Data Breach

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Dissent

Dark Reading reports: Sequoia Capital last week warned investors that some of their personal and sensitive information may have been exposed in a recent data breach of the firm. According to reports, Sequoia said the data may have been accessed by a third party in the breach, which occurred as a result of a successful phishing attack on an employee via email….

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Follow-up: Data from the Toledo Public Schools attack by Maze reportedly being misused

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Dissent

In September, DataBreaches.net reported that Maze threat actors claimed to have attacked an Ohio public school district, but the district was not responding to inquiries from this site about the claims.  One month later, this site named the district as Toledo Public Schools and reported that while Maze had dumped files with student and employee…

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Watermark takes action after data security breach potentially affects people in 10 states

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Dissent

Kimberly Bonvissuto reports: Tucson, AZ-based Watermark Retirement Communities is the latest victim of a data security breach, in this case one that may have compromised the personal information of 208 residents and others. The company sent out a notice on Wednesday that it became aware of a “cyber intrusion” in September. The senior living operator…

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Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification giant hit by ransomware

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: UL LLC, better known as Underwriters Laboratories, has suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted its servers and caused them to shut down systems while they recover. […] BleepingComputer has learned that UL suffered a ransomware attack last weekend that encrypted devices in their data center. Read more on BleepingComputer.

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Kroger reports Accellion data breach affecting pharmacy records, associate HR data

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Updated March 9: This incident  subsequently appeared on HHS’s public breach tool as having been reported to HHS on February 19 and impacting 368,100 patients. Brian Planalp reports: Kroger is informing some customers and associates that a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach. Kroger’s own IT systems were not…

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Yuba County was the subject of a ransomware cyber attack

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

David Wilson reports: Yuba County was recently the subject of a ransomware cyber-attack, which infected some of the county computer systems with malware, according to county spokesperson Russ Brown. The malware encrypted the affected systems and the attacker demanded payment from the county in order to obtain a decryption key. The county did not make…

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