Elliott Weld reports: Floral Park-Bellerose school district officials announced at their Board of Education meeting Monday that the district’s computer system had been infected with a type of malware known as “ransomware,” impeding its progress in delivering virtual education to students. Read more on The Island Now. The report does not indicate what type of…
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GA: Jekyll Island Authority computer system infiltrated in ransomware attack
The Brunswick News reports: Jekyll Island Authority fell victim last week to a ransomware attack that has since been mostly addressed. JIA Executive Director Jones Hooks informed the authority’s board at its monthly meeting Tuesday that JIA computer systems were infected by a ransomware attack designed to damage or gain unauthorized access to the system. “All of our computer…
SunCrypt ransomware threat actors claim theft of University Hospital New Jersey files
Ax Sharma reports: University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) has suffered a massive data leak with over 48,000 documents floating on the dark web. An anonymous tip sent to BleepingComputer shows the different types of documents found in the leaked data dump. Read more on BleepingComputer, who provide a lot of redacted screenshots from a data dump…
West County provides notice of data breach last year; no identity theft reported so far
Sarah Haas reports: West County School District announced on Friday that, although it had experienced a possible data breach between Oct. 6 and Nov. 20 last year, to date it’s had no reports from anyone affected by that unauthorized access of information on a computer server used for summer school. Read more on Daily Journal…
Hackers tried to slip Trojan viruses into St. Louis County’s website, but never got in, IT director says
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…
Maze attacking some of the country’s largest school districts
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…