As if Texas didn’t have enough problems already… Tierra Smith reports: Magnolia ISD is responding to a technology breach that occurred Sunday afternoon, school officials confirmed. The district said the breach of unauthorized messages included social media, text messages, emails and phone calls. Many of the alleged messages, some of which were racist and directly…
University of the Highlands and Islands working to recover from cyberattack
University of the Highlands and Islands in the U.K. suffered a cyberattack that resulted in classes being canceled today. They tweeted about it here, and posted a statement on their web site: The University of the Highlands and Islands partnership is experiencing an ongoing cyber incident which has caused disruption to our systems and networks…
Trillium Community Health Plan members impacted by Accellion breach
DataBreaches.net has found a second HIPAA-covered entity that has revealed that it was affected by the Accellion attack by CLOP threat actors. On February 25, Trillium Community Health Plan in Oregon disclosed that they had been notified by Accellion on January 25 of the cyberattack that impacted dozens of Accellion’s clients. In Trillium’s case, the…
UK: Paedophile IT technician jailed after installing software onto work computers to spy on colleagues
Rebecca Speare-Cole reports: An IT technician who installed software onto computers at work to spy on his colleagues and was found with indecent images of children has been jailed. Andrew Cakebread, 36, stole 6,803 videos from his coworkers and their families, including 79 taken through hacked webcams. He also recorded footage inside his company’s staff…
JP: Consulting firm hit with ransomware; 350 households have info possibly leaked
Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting reports that an unnamed consulting firm in Tokyo contracted by Asahikawa City as part of rebuilding a housing complex was compromised by ransomware, resulting in the compromise of personal information for about 350 households. Read about it on fnn.jp (Japanese). h/t, @Chum1ng0
BR: Cyber attack on the CPTrans website and the Educa em Casa platform
The following is a translation of a press release issued March 5 by Petrópolis: The Petrópolis City Hall reports that the web pages of CPTrans [Companhia Petropolitana de Trânsito e Transportes] and the Educa em Casa platform, which serves students from the municipal network remotely, were the target of a cyber attack by a hacker. The…