Sergiu Gatlan reports: Oregon urban school district Portland Public Schools is on track to recover roughly $2.9 million wired by district employees to a BEC scammer, after discovering the fraudulent transactions before the money left the fraudster’s accounts. Portland Public Schools is a PK-12 urban school district in Portland, Oregon, with over 49,000 students enrolled in 81 schools,…
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Rockville Centre pays almost $100G to hackers after ransomware attack, officials say
Joie Tyrrell reports: The Rockville Centre school district paid almost $100,000 to restore its data after being hacked with a ransomware virus that encrypted files on the system’s server until payment was made to unlock the information, officials said Friday. The Nassau County district was among several statewide targeted by a ransomware virus that encrypts…
Valve patches recent Steam zero-days, calls turning away researcher ‘a mistake’
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Gaming giant Valve has called turning away a security researcher who reported a vulnerability in the company’s Steam gaming client “a mistake.” A Valve representative told ZDNet in an email today that the company has shipped fixes for the Steam client, updated its bug bounty program rules, and is reviewing the researcher’s…
Privacy Incident at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Neurology Department
August 22, Boston — Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) is notifying approximately 9,900 individuals of a privacy incident involving MGH’s Department of Neurology in connection with some of its research programs. On June 24, 2019, MGH learned that an unauthorized third party had access to databases related to two computer applications used by researchers in the…
Hospital Not Liable for Facebook Post of Patient Medical Records
Mary Anne Pazanowski reports that once again, a court has ruled that an employer is not liable for what an employee does if they the employee was not acting within the scope of their employment duties: An Indiana hospital isn’t liable for an employee’s unauthorized actions that allegedly led to the posting of a patient’s…
Sonoma Valley Hospital Website, Email Addresses Hijacked
Jessica Davis reports on a potentially very serious cyberattack that is not the type of thing you’ll usually read on this site: Sonoma Valley Hospital was forced to give up its coveted three-letter domain name in early August after hackers hijacked its website, according to local news outlet Sonoma Index-Tribune. The website had been registered…