It’s hard to keep up with all the school district reports of breaches this school year. On February 15, there was a report on Lodi School District that I’m first catching up with. It wasn’t a ransomware incident, and all CBS reported was the following: School officials in Lodi are investigating after student data was…
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MS: FBI investigating after Jackson Public Schools computer system hacked
Jacob Gallant reports: Jackson Public Schools is dealing with a network interaction after a recent cyber attack. School officials said in a statement that its information technology team, along with outside cyber-professionals, performed a full assessment of its computer system. They say student and employee information has not been compromised. Read more on WLBT. The…
PIH sued after notifying patients of phishing attack that could have exposed their protected health information
On January 24, I posted a breach notification from PIH Health with a commentary on how long it took from the time of the phishing attack to notification of almost 200,000 potentially affected patients. There was nothing in their notification, however, that suggested that patients had actually had their protected health information stolen or misused….
More details emerge on one of Maze Team’s victims
On January 21 and January 31, this site reported on a ransomware attack by Maze Team on CrossroadsNet or Crossroads Technologies. It wasn’t even clear who was attacked, as one entity had no web site, and none of the Crossroads Technologies entities responded to multiple inquiries by this site about the breach. Then on January…
Threat Vector Number 1
Britton White is a cybersecurity & HIPAA Compliance advisor. The following article is reproduced with his kind permission. Email is the bane of our existence and the number one threat vector….. there’s no other way to say it. I’ve rummaged through over 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics (some multiple times) in my time conducting…
MO: Grundy County Courthouse hit with cybersecurity breach
KTTN reports: The Grundy County Courthouse in Trenton experienced a cybersecurity breach on Friday, January 30, 2020. Grundy County Clerk Betty Spickard said the breach affected the county’s server and computers on it, including those used by the offices of the county clerk, collector-treasurer, and assessor. Read more on KTTN. They don’t actually say it’s a ransomware attack, but it sounds…