KTRK reports: Katy ISD said the birth dates and Social Security numbers of its employees were “inadvertently” released. […] According to officials, the information was sent out in response to a routine request for an employee list. Read more on ABC13. This is not the first breach involving employees’ personal information, although in a bigger…
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About 3,000 Fort Worth water customers may have had info stolen in data breach
Kaley Johnson reports more trouble for Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies: About 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department may have had had their information stolen due to a data breach, a department spokeswoman said. Those impacted would have made a one-time payment for Fort Worth water with a credit card between Aug. 27 and Oct….
MN: Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery notifies 80,000 patients of ransomware incident
It’s gotten that there are so many ransomware incidents in the healthcare sector, that even tens of thousands of affected patients may not make headlines. One of the recent additions to HHS’s public breach tool involved the Southeastern Minnesota Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Minnesota. They reported that 80,000 patients were being notified. The following…
ME: U.S. Secret Service investigates data hack at Bonny Eagle schools
Gillian Graham reports: The Secret Service is investigating a data breach that exposed the financial information of MSAD 6 [Maine School Administrative District 6] employees. One of the district’s servers was hacked last week and a piece of ransomware was installed, according to school officials. The breach happened on Nov. 30 and was discovered Dec. 2…
IL Ransomware attack hits Sycamore School District 427
Matthew N. Wells reports: Visitors to the Sycamore School District 427 website Tuesday were greeted with a pop-up message saying the district had been the victim of a ransomware attack. The message from D-427 Superintendent Kathy Countryman addressed the issue on the district’s website. Read more on Daily Chronicle. The name struck me as familiar,…
Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war?
Riley Griffin of Bloomberg reports: By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at Merck offices across the U.S. were…