David Hannant reports: A college has vowed to investigate after the personal details of hundreds of its applicants were emailed to a single parent by mistake. In August last year, the parent of a City College Norwich student was in an email exchange with one of the college’s customer service team when she received an…
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Updating: Napa Valley College Recovering After June Ransomware Attack
There’s an update to the incident first disclosed by Napa Valley College on June 10 and reported in the media on June 25. On July 5, Edward Booth reported: The Napa Valley College website and network systems have been coming back online this week after being shut down by a ransomware attack in early June….
Ca: College of the Desert victimized once again by ransomware; most online services currently down
Jonathan Horwitz reports: The College of the Desert has fallen victim to a second successful malware attack against its online network in as many years. Currently, most of the college’s online services are offline, its website is not available and at least some employees are lacking access to their email accounts, COD public information officer Nicholas Robles confirmed…
Update on Plainedge School District ransomware attack
On June 15, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat threat actors had added Plainedge School District in New York to their dedicated leak site. At the time, BlackCat (aka ALPHV) only offered a few files as proof but warned more data would be leaked if they did not hear from the district. The threat actors subsequently dumped…
MO: Fitzgibbon Hospital hit by ransomware, sensitive data leaked
Although one of this year’s trends in cybercrime seems to be a return to the theft/extort model, some groups continue to encrypt victims’ files. On Saturday, DataBreaches received information pointing to an attack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri. The group claiming responsibility call themselves “Daixin Team.” It is not a name known to DataBreaches…
School Admin Shared Non-Public Details of Ransomware Attack with Private Company
Scott Travis reports ethical questions about yet more lack of transparency by Broward County Public Schools when they were hit by Conti ransomware. In November 2021, DataBreaches provided a brief recap of the situation to that date, reporting that In March, 2021, Broward County Public Schools disclosed a breach that captured the public’s attention when Conti…