Mariane McLeod reports: Wasaga Beach has paid part of the ransom to hackers who took over the town’s computer system earlier this month. The computer ransomware attack started Sunday, April 29th. Staff discovered they couldn’t access town data when the arrived on Monday. Read more on Bayshore Broadcasting.
Fredericksburg school system employee falls for phishing attack….. with predictable results
Cathy Jett reports: Hackers phishing for sensitive information faked an email from a regional organization to break into the Fredericksburg school system’s electronic mail and file system last month. The April 24 intrusion was caught the following day, but not before hackers accessed 14 school employees’ emails and one school employee’s files, according to a…
UK school’s email gaffe exposed really sensitive information
If you are going to make an email gaffe, hope it is not be as bad as this one – or better yet, take proactive steps to make sure that it is not as bad as this one. Gemma Mitchell reports: Bosses at Stowupland High School have apologised after an email meant for staff was…
Eye Care Surgery Center notifies 2,553 patients of laptop theft
The following substitute notice was posted on the center’s site. The incident has also been posted to HHS’s public breach tool, where it is currently listed twice – once under this name and once as Tiger Vision, LLC. In reading their notice, below, note that they do not tell us when the laptop was stolen…
JP: Morinaga Milk fears leak of 120,000 online customers’ info
The Mainichi reports: Morinaga Milk Industry Co. said Wednesday that credit card or other personal information of up to 120,000 online customers may have leaked. The dairy producer said it has suspended credit card payments at its shopping website for health foods and asked a third-party body to investigate the matter. Read more on The…
“AlfabetoVirtual” charged for hacks, defacements
AP reports: A California man has been charged with hacking and defacing websites for a West Point counterterrorism research center and a New York City government finance agency. A criminal complaint accuses Billy Ribeiro Anderson with hacking the two sites in 2015 and 2016 using the online pseudonym “Alfabeto Virtual.” It says he modified them…