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Student information: Mississippi reaches agreement with Questar over data breach

Posted on March 16, 2019 by Dissent

Bill Moak reports that Questar, a testing and assessment vendor, has settled charges by the Mississippi state attorney general in the wake of a 2018 breach that affected hundreds of students in Mississippi and other states.  Moak reports: In its Assurance of Voluntary Cooperation, Questar agreed to a number of actions: Compliance with the Mississippi…

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Some job applicants are first learning about the May, 2018 JobScience breach. Why?

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Dissent

In November, 2018, this site noted a breach disclosed by Huntsville Hospital involving JobScience, Inc., a vendor providing online job application services.  On November 10, we reported that other entities were also affected, such as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital,  who had been notified in September by JobScience, and NorthBay Healthcare Corp., who were notified in October….

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Bitcoin Ransomware Cripples Boston Legal System for Two Weeks

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Dissent

P. H. Madore reports: Boston public defenders suffered a ransomware attack some weeks back but have chosen not to send the bitcoin demanded by the attacker. Instead, they decided to use back-ups to restore services. The Committee oversees public defenders in Boston. According to the Boston Globe, that decision has meant a “weekslong slowdown” that…

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Ballard NW Senior Center attacked by ransomware ahead of annual fundraiser

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Dissent

DeeDee Sun reports: The Ballard Northwest Senior Center found itself in the bull’s-eye of ransomware attack, with its server wiped just weeks before their biggest fundraiser of the year. The senior center says it doesn’t know if it was targeted, or if the ransomware attack hit them at random, but now it’s struggling to get…

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Cyberattacker demands ransom from Northern Colorado utility

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Dissent

Pat Ferrier reports: When employees of the Fort Collins Loveland Water District and South Fort Collins Sanitation District got to work the morning of Feb. 11, they were locked out of technical and engineering data and drawings stored on their computers. The districts had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, the second in two years, General Manager…

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Carmel Unified School District notifies employees of phishing incident

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Dissent

Ouch. This isn’t a W-2 phishing attack, but in some ways, it seems even worse. Carmel Unified School District notified employees that a successful phishing attack had gained access to an employee’s email account that had “a limited number of documents.” Those documents may have contained employees’ or dependents’ information: Employee social security numbers Spouses’…

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