Ian Cross reports: Personal information for the entire Bay Village High School senior class, including grades, student ID numbers and test scores, was accidentally emailed to the families of each senior last week, according to a notice sent to families in the district. At about 8:53 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 23, a Bay High School…
IL: Evanston Township High School Defrauded Of $48,570 In Hack That Exposed 1,139 Identities
Jonah Meadows reports: Evanston Township High School officials got scammed out of more than $48,000 during a monthslong data breach that also exposed the personal information of more than 1,100 Illinois residents, Patch has learned. The fraudulent payment was reported to Evanston police, and the data breach was disclosed to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,…
Ransomware attack shuts down Lewis & Clark Community College
Russell Kinsaul reports: Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey closed all their campuses this week and cancelled all extra-curricular activities, including sports. The move was made after the director of information technology noticed suspicious activity last Tuesday and shut down the school’s computer network on Wednesday. According to college president, Ken Trzaska, hackers got…
Ca: Headwaters confirms cybersecurity incident: “… many of our systems are down…”
Tabitha Wells reports: Headwaters Health Care Centre has provided an update regarding the suspicious email activity that led to the closure of its COVID-19 assessment centre and affected a number of internal systems. On Friday afternoon (Nov. 26), the hospital posted a second notice to its website, confirming a data breach. Read more on Orangeville.com
OR: One Community Health reports April cyberattack
On September 13, DataBreaches.net added an entry to the monthly worksheet this site maintains for annual data analyses. The entry was for “One Community Health” in Oregon, but it was not the covered entity that announced the breach. DataBreaches.net learned about the breach from Pysa threat actors who had added the covered entity to their…
Panasonic discloses four-months-long data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has disclosed on Friday a major security breach after an unidentified threat actor had gained access to its internal network. The Osaka-based company said it detected the security breach earlier this month, on November 11. “As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data…