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Hackers tried to slip Trojan viruses into St. Louis County’s website, but never got in, IT director says

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Dissent

Jeremy Kohler reports:  St. Louis County government’s information technology staff took down the county website on Sept. 1 after discovering attacks on its server designed to take control of the site, the IT director said Monday. They were able to respond to the threat before the hackers could succeed, acting IT director Charles Henderson said…

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Maze attacking some of the country’s largest school districts

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Dissent

On August 27, Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada experienced a data security incident that they disclosed the next day.  And on September 8, they issued an update. The update noted that the attack was a ransomware attack. Although the district stated it had seen no evidence of misuse, they were notifying everyone to…

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Interim Report on the Blackbaud Breach: 3.4 Million Patients and Counting

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Dissent

The Blackbaud ransomware incident disclosed on July 16 will likely end up being the largest or one of the largest breaches of the year involving patient information. I’ve been reading disclosures from dozens of entities and have compiled a list of those Blackbaud clients whose disclosures state or suggest that Blackbaud had been storing some…

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SC: In September, Roper St. Francis was busy sending notifications on two separate breaches

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Dissent

On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is notifying almost 93,000 patients. There are two unrelated incidents. The first involved the compromise of an employee’s email account in June that the…

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CU Collections Notifies Customers of Data Security Incident

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Dissent

The following press release was released on Friday, September 11,  after 5 pm. It appears to be the same press release CU Collections issued on July 29, with the exception that this one specifically mentions Wellspring Credit Union: CU Collections, LLC (“CU Collections” or the “Company”) announced today that it had suffered a data security…

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Fairfax County Public Schools confirms it was a victim of cyberattack

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Dissent

There was nothing on the homepage of Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia that would indicate any cyberattack or problem, but  the ransomware threat actors known as Maze had  listed the FCPS on its leak site this week and provided some files as proof of access/acquisition.   DataBreaches.net contacted FCPS  to ask them whether they…

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