Sarah Michels reports: Nearly a thousand members of Kentucky Employees’ Health Plan (KEHP) were victims of a data breach that took place in late April and mid-May, according to a statement released by the Commonwealth of Kentucky Personnel Cabinet on June 2. During the first attack, from April 21 to 27, 971 KEHP members accounts…
“Aeries Software” Breached and Over 150 School Districts Compromised
Bill Toulas reports that more than 150 school district were compromised by the Aeries software breach. I’m not surprised, as I’ve been updating my little list of schools where I had seen breach notifications. You can find that post of mine here.
Duluth schools had some kind of breach…
News reports out of Duluth say that on Wednesday evening, parents were notified about a cyber security breach involving student accounts. The district has disabled student accounts for now, but is trying to restore them by tomorrow, which is the final day of school there. No other details have been provided so far.
Ransomware gang says it breached one of NASA’s IT contractors
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The operators of the DopplePaymer ransomware have congratulated SpaceX and NASA for their first human-operated rocket launch and then immediately announced that they infected the network of one of NASA’s IT contractors. In a blog post published today, the DopplePaymer ransomware gang said it successfully breached the network of Digital Management Inc. (DMI), a…
Data Breach Lawsuit Filed Against Aveanna Healthcare
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports that Aveanna Healthcare has been sued over a July, 2019 breach that it discovered in August, 2019. The breach was disclosed in February of 2020 as potentially impacting more than 166,000 patients. The incident was one of all-too-many incidents where threat actors gained access to a number of employees’ email accounts,…
Judge Pushes Back Accused LinkedIn Hacker’s Trial One Last Time Over COVID-19 Concerns
Ross Todd reports that a federal judge in San Francisco has once again delayed the resumption of the criminal trial of Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, the Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring. Read more on Law.com.