All Weatherton reports: Virginia Beach City Public Schools said it’s investigating after someone hacked into a Zoom classroom filled with 5th graders and showed a picture of a man’s body parts on the screen. The students typically go to Windsor Oaks Elementary School but are learning virtually due to coronavirus. The incident happened on Friday…
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NY State confirms cyberattack at St. Lawrence County hospitals
Jeff Cole reports: The New York State Department of Health confirms there has been a cyberattack within the St. Lawrence Health System, which operates Canton-Potsdam and Gouverneur hospitals. Ambulances were being diverted and computer systems were down — at least at some point. This sounds like a ransomware attack but the health system has not…
Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steelcase has disclosed that they were the victim of a cyberattack on October 22nd, 2020. On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. (the “Company”) detected a cyberattack on its information technology systems. The Company promptly implemented a series of containment measures to address…
Amazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers
Ax Sharma reports: Amazon has recently terminated employees responsible for leaking customer data, including their email addresses, to an unaffiliated third-party in violation of company policies. The company has sent out an email announcement to affected customers following the incident. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Mount Diablo Unified District responds to SchoolMessenger leak
On September 21, the Mount Diablo Unified District notified parents of a breach involving the SchoolMessenger app by Intrado. Their letter explains that on September 14, 2020, the district was informed that “when certain parents were using the SchoolMessenger mobile application, they were able to view a list of roughly thirty (30) unique names, emails,…
Update: Has Guilford Technical Community College notified more than 43,000 students of data breach?
On September 19, DataBreaches.net reported that Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) in North Carolina had apparently become a ransomware victim of DoppelPaymer on September 13. But on October 6, GTCC was no longer listed on the threat actors’ dedicated leak site. The removal of a victim’s name often indicates that the victim had a change…