Collaborate Disseminate
André Salkin reports: The Santa Fe school board approved a new cybersecurity policy this week but delayed a vote on a separate policy governing student data privacy, with most board members calling it too broad and too important to rush through. The d… Continue reading Santa Fe Schools Move Forward With New Cybersecurity Policy
A tip about Click2Mail was not the only interesting tip DataBreaches received on Thursday. We also received an email from someone who identified themself as a patient at Blossom Health, a US-based telehealth and psychiatry platform. “An extortion… Continue reading A rough day at the extortion office and a botched attack on Blossom Health.
On August 6, DataBreaches reported that Cardiology Associates of Port Huron (CAPH), a Michigan medical practice with 9 locations, appeared to have been breached by a group called Orova. As reported at the time, the listing included screenshots with per… Continue reading Time’s Up: Ransomware Group Claims 150,000+ Cardiology Patient Records. We’ve Seen the Data.
Connor Jones reports: The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies has pleaded guilty following a successful FBI sting. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, then 28,… Continue reading US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
Rick Lane reports: A massive cache of internal builds from Valve has reportedly leaked online, including beta builds of several classic Valve titles and possible weapons from Half-Life 2’s cancelled third episode. The leak, which began circulatin… Continue reading A massive cache of Valve data has reportedly leaked online, appearing to include Portal 2’s elusive beta build and a potential weapon from Half-Life 2: Episode 3
Joy Agwunobi reports: Cybercriminals are ramping up preparations for the new academic year by creating thousands of education-themed websites and phishing campaigns designed to steal personal and financial information from students, parents and educato… Continue reading Cybercriminals build fake school websites as education attacks hit record high
Abigail Ham reports: The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs says some veterans getting services through the White River Junction, Vt. healthcare system may have had their personal information exposed in an unintentional data breach. Earlier thi… Continue reading VT: Local VA warns of possible data breach
DPA reports: The Berlin state government has declined to comment on the demands made by hackers who targeted the city’s administrative data network two weeks ago, a spokeswoman said on Saturday. The government is also withholding information abou… Continue reading De: Hackers demand 30 bitcoin from Berlin as sensitive data breach widens
AJ Vicens and Raphael Satter report: U.S. officials are backpedaling on claims that several government agencies were hacked by Chinese spies, now saying that the organizations were among the hackers’ targets. In a freshly edited statement, the J… Continue reading US officials backpedal on claims that government agencies were hacked by Chinese
SuspectFile reports: A cyberattack against a Texas healthcare organization allegedly resulted in the exfiltration of approximately 1.4 TB of data, according to claims made by the ransomware group PEAR. The alleged victim is South Plains Rural Health Se… Continue reading PEAR leaks data allegedly exfiltrated from South Plains Rural Health Services while SPRHS remains silent