Collaborate Disseminate
Sergui Gatlan reports: The Boston Public Library (BPL) has disclosed today that its network was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, leading to a system-wide technical outage. BPL serves almost 4 million visitors per year through its central library, twe… Continue reading Boston Public Library discloses cyberattack, system-wide technical outage
In a letter dated August 13, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York disclosed that there had been unauthorized activity on its network between May 22, 2021 and July 9, 2021. The breach was discovered on July 14, and reportedly inv… Continue reading The Research Foundation for the State University of New York notifying 46,734 of breach
Sandhills Center in North Carolina manages public mental health, intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorder services for the citizens of Anson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph and Richmond counties. As … Continue reading NC: Sandhills Center remains silent after threat actors claim to have hacked them and exfiltrated 634 GB of their files
Travis Gettys reports: More than 1,000 people — including Republican leaders and conservative media personalities — have already signed up for the pro-Donald Trump cryptocurrency magacoin. Poor security on a website associated with the cryp… Continue reading Trump-loving Republicans snatch up “magacoins” — and quickly fall victim to data breach
Michael Pavitt reports: Login identification and passwords of some Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games ticketholders has reportedly been leaked online. Japanese news agency Kyodo quoted an unnamed Government official, who said the Tokyo 2020 Organi… Continue reading Tokyo 2020 reportedly suffers ticket-related data breach
Camille Fine reports: The team at York Animal Hospital has nearly finished manually reentering inventory data that was lost to a ransomware attack that wiped all patient records from the past four years. “Five phone lines have been ringing off th… Continue reading ME: York Animal Hospital hit by ransomware, lost all patient records for past four years.
Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell report: The theft of a charity’s entire database containing the personal information of more than 27,000 clients, donors, volunteers and employees reveals a major gap in Alberta’s privacy legislation, an e… Continue reading Ca: Data theft from Meals on Wheels reveals gap in provincial privacy legislation, expert says
Bigger companies may pay bigger fines, but smaller fines do not mean smaller impact when it comes to dealing with sensitive information, as in this case. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined transgender charity Mermaids £25,000 for fai… Continue reading UK: ICO fines transgender charity for data protection breach exposing sensitive personal data
I could be wrong, but maybe Putin wasn’t being totally sincere when he indicated he would work with U.S. on dealing with hacking from Russia. William Turton and Jennifer Jacobs report: Russian government hackers breached the computer systems of … Continue reading Russia ‘Cozy Bear’ Hackers Breached GOP as Ransomware Attack Hit
Gareth Corfield reports: Criminals infected the Salvation Army in the UK with ransomware and siphoned the organisation’s data, The Register has learned. A Salvation Army spokesperson confirmed the evangelical Christian church and charity was comp… Continue reading UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack