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NY: Victor Central School District closed Monday to in-person classes due to malware attack

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Dissent

Either the snow will get you or the malware will. On Saturday, it was the malware. The Victor Central School District will be closed to in-person classes Monday after a malware attack struck servers in the district. According to an e-mail sent to parents and guardians of district students, the malware attack has caused all…

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Lawmakers press NSA for answers about Juniper hack from 2015

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Dissent

Justin Katz reports: A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the National Security Agency to account for its part in the five-year-old breach of Juniper Networks, following a congressional investigation of the company last year. “The American people have a right to know why NSA did not act after the Juniper hack to protect…

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Court Holds Data Breach Notice Disclosing Potential Cyberattack Did Not Establish Plaintiffs’ Standing in Privacy Litigation

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dissent

Christina Lamoureux of Squire Patton Boggs writes: While many federal courts have weighed in on the issue of what suffices for Article III standing in the context of a data breach litigation, not all state courts have.  Last week, the Superior Court of Delaware found that a group of plaintiffs who received a notice that their personal…

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CA: Serious Prison Time for Hackers Behind Wolf & Associates Breach

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dissent

Tyler Hayden reports: A pair of habitual offenders behind one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony counts that will send them to prison for a combined 33 years. San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen, 37, and Nicole Milan, 31, admitted to hacking a computer network…

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Criminal, domestic violence case info exposed in court records leak

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Dissent

Lindsey O’Donnell reported this earlier this week. Be sure to read the update to it below: Cook County, Ill., home to Chicago, has left a database exposed since at least September that contained sensitive criminal and family-court records. A non-password protected database, belonging to a county in Illinois, exposed 323,000 court records for at least…

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Ransomware attack on Netgain Technology compromised info of Ramsey County home visit clients

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Dissent

Deanna Weniger reports: Ramsey County government offices have been hacked … again. On Friday, the county sent a notification to 8,700 clients of its Family Health Division letting them know that their data may have been accessed on or around Dec. 2. Netgain Technology LLC, a vendor that provides technology services to Ramsey County, advised the county…

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