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Valley Health System recovering from ransomware attack while maintaining patient care
Valley Health Systems (VHS) has joined the unfortunate ranks of health systems that have fallen prey to a ransomware attack. VHS provides primary and preventative care to approximately 75,000 patients each year in southern West Virginia, southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, operating more than 40 healthcare facilities. Their 2019 annual report noted that their sliding…
Over 54,000 scanned NSW driver’s licences found in open cloud storage
Juha Saarinen reports: Tens of thousands of scanned NSW driver’s licenses and completed tolling notice statutory declarations were left exposed on an open Amazon Web Services storage instance, but Transport for NSW doesn’t know how the sensitive personal data ended up in the cloud. The open AWS S3 bucket was found by Bob Diachenko of…
NV: Clark County School District notifies parents after data security incident
AP reports: School officials in Las Vegas notified parents of what administrators termed a “data security incident” involving district computers. The Clark County School District said Thursday the extent of the breach was being evaluated and that distance learning was not affected. Read more on KXNT. The district tweeted a copy of the email it…
New Zealand stock exchange disrupted by fourth ‘offshore’ cyber attack
Reuters reports: The New Zealand government has activated national security systems after the nation’s stock exchange was disrupted by cyber attacks for a fourth day. There was no clarity on who was behind the “offshore” attacks, but the failure to stop them has raised questions about New Zealand’s security systems, experts said. Read more on The Guardian.
AR: Gosnell schools hit with ransomware attack
Aaron Castleberry reports: The Gosnell School District is recovering from a ransomware attack on Sunday. Superintendent Bornad Mace said ransomware software infiltrated the school’s system Sunday morning. Mace said the district’s tech team, the Arkansas Division of Information Services, and the P12 Cyber Threat Response Team worked to clear and recover data on Tuesday. Read…