Melia Masumoto reports: Cedar Park Middle School sent out an email to 207 parents earlier this week, requesting updated vaccine records. But without blind coping the email addresses, every address on the email was visible to all the recipients. … The email requested an updated immunization record for those students because they were missing the…
Nansen Warns Of Potential Phishing Attacks Following Vendor Security Incident Exposing Customer Data
Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright reports: Crypto analytics platform Nansen has revealed that a bad actor accessed its admin system to provision customer accounts. On Sept. 20, a security breach by one of Nansen’s third-party vendors led to compromised customer access, underscoring the ever-present digital risk, particularly in the continually evolving arena of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency….
What to know about the University of Minnesota’s data breach
Devlin Epding reports what the U. of Minnesota has been uncovering about a breach first discovered in July. After investigating a data breach report from August, the University of Minnesota acknowledged Thursday that personal information about students, prospective students and employees across 30 years has been compromised. The U began its investigation after an individual…
Ohio Community College Data Theft Breach Affects Nearly 300K
Marianne Kobalsuk McGee reports: An Ohio community college is notifying 290,000 people of a data theft breach this spring that may have compromised their personal, financial and health information. In a breach notification Wednesday, Lakeland Community College did not provide any details on the attack, which occurred between March 7 and March 31, but the…
Attorney General James Reaches Agreement with Marymount Manhattan College to Invest $3.5 Million to Protect Students’ Online Data
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement with Marymount Manhattan College (MMC), a private non-profit liberal arts college in New York City, to invest $3.5 million in data security to protect students’ online data. In 2021, MMC suffered a data breach that affected nearly 100,000 New Yorkers who were current…
Crown Point schools 2022 ransomware attack cost $1M to resolve
Adrian Martinez-De la Cruz reports that Crown Point Community School Corp. Superintendent Todd Terrill provided an update on the ransomware attack last November that cost the district about $1 million to resolve. The superintendent said the breach occurred after an employee fell for a phishing attack. The district decided to pay the attackers, and “a payment…