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Privacy nightmare for Toledo Public Schools: Hackers dumped student and employee data

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Dissent

By mid-September,  it was clear that school districts were under increased threat of ransomware attacks. In fact, when Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas and Fairfax County Public Schools (CFPS) in Virginia were added to the Maze cartel’s leak site, it seemed to portend potentially big data dumps.  Since that dump, Maze dumped…

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Barnes & Noble hit by cyberattack that exposed customer data

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: ​U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they were victims of a cyberattack that may have exposed customers’ data. […] In an email sent to customers late Wednesday night and seen by BleepingComputer, Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they suffered a cyberattack on October 10th, 2020. As part of…

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Universal Health Services reports restoration of services and its IT network three weeks after massive ransomware attack

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Dissent

Universal Health Services issued an update to its status following a massive ransomware attack on September 27.  Here is the full text of their October 12 update: Universal Health Services (UHS) confirms that the UHS IT Network has been restored at Corporate and across all Acute Care hospitals, enabling connections to all major systems and…

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Oswego Health: Some patient data potentially exposed

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Dissent

Ken Sturtz reports: Oswego Health has notified an unspecified number of patients about a potential leak of personal information via an employee email account earlier this year. In a letter sent to affected patients, Oswego Health said it had discovered “potential unauthorized access to an employee email account” between June 11 and June 15. The…

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KY: Breach of city contractor e-mail put some city workers info at risk

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Dissent

Steve Rogers reports: Some current and former Lexington city employees’ personal information was put at risk when a third-party contractor’s e-mail server was hacked in July. The city was notified on Sept. 28 of the security incident by Metaformers Inc., the third-party contractor working on city technology projects, the city said in a release. Read…

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Documents give details on Hennepin Healthcare employees fired for ‘improperly’ accessing George Floyd records

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Dissent

Hannah Flood reports: The public is learning more about some employees at Hennepin HealthCare who were fired for accessing George Floyd’s medical information when they weren’t supposed to. An attorney for Floyd’s family was notified last month that his medical records were accessed multiple times by employees at the hospital, violating Floyd’s medical privacy and…

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