As noted previously on this site, there have recently been a number of attacks on school districts in eastern Texas. Here’s another report on the situation that links the attacks to some districts’ cloud-based hosting service. Grace Juarez reports: Hudson ISD’s website was down throughout the weekend and Monday after a cyber attack affected the…
Category: U.S.
Second Data Breach at Kentucky Unemployment System
Sarah Coble reports: Kentucky’s unemployment system appears to have suffered its second data breach in four months after a claimant reported being able to view another claimant’s personal data. The reporter of the alleged breach logged on to the Office of Unemployment Insurance’s (OUI) online system on July 27 to work on their unemployment application. While trying…
CO: Lafayette pays $45,000 in ransom after cyber-attack disabled computer system
Keely Sugden and Evan Kruegel report: The mayor of Lafayette posted a video Tuesday, saying the City has paid a $45,000 ransom after a cyber attack affected city computer and phone systems. “The City was coerced into paying a $45,000 ransom to retrieve a ‘key’ to unlock encrypted data,” officials said. Read more on KDVR.
Court Approves Class Action Settlement in RE: YAHOO! Inc.
Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Yahoo!’s data breach class action is finally being put to rest. Last month, the Northern District of California approved the proposed $117.5M settlement to resolve the claims of approximately 194 million class members in In re Yahoo! Inc. Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 16-MD-02752-LHK, 2020 U.S. Dist….
Morgan Stanley Hit with Class Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Breaches
Jed Horowitz reports: Former and current Morgan Stanley customers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit alleging negligence and invasion of privacy over the firm’s failure to properly scrub decommissioned hardware of personal information such as social security numbers, account numbers and other personal data. Morgan Stanley earlier this month began notifying brokers and customers that some…
Some Cub Pharmacies in Minnesota report breaches due to looters
Cub Pharmacies is the fourth chain I’ve seen that is reporting some theft of protected health information related to looters during protests in May. But when you read the descriptions of these events — these not just protesters protesting. These people intentionally stole patient data and records. For what political protest purpose? None that I…