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Justin Hendry reports: A security breach of a cloud-based client management system used by National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) service providers has exposed a “large volume” of health and other sensitive data. CTARS, a Sydney-based software and… Continue reading AU: NDIS case management system provider breached
Hats off to Kristal Kuykendall and THE Journal for tracking the Illuminate Education breach. Kykendall reports: The breach of student data that occurred during a January 2022 cyberattack targeting Illuminate Education’s systems is now known to have imp… Continue reading Illuminate Education Breach Included Los Angeles Unified & Riverside County Districts, Pushing Total Impacted to Over 3M
Nader Issa and Lauren FitzPatrick report: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals Friday. The attack targeted a com… Continue reading Battelle for Kids ransomware attack compromised records of 560,000 Chicago Public School students, employee
Stefanie Ferrari of BakerHostetler writes: Vendor-caused incidents continued to surge in 2021. Nearly 20 percent of the total incidents we handled last year were caused by vendors, with more than half requiring notification. As in prior years, vendor i… Continue reading 2022 DSIR Deeper Dive: Vendor Incidents
Mike Rogoway reports: Ruby Receptionists, the Portland company that serves as a phone receptionist for thousands of small businesses, has suffered a major outage that knocked it offline all week. One of Ruby’s online vendors was hit by a cyberattack th… Continue reading Cyberattack at Opus Interactive knocks Ruby Receptionists offline, disrupting service for thousands
From their May 9 10-Q filing: Our IT systems and third-party cloud services are potentially vulnerable to cyber-attacks, including ransomware, or other data security incidents, by employees or others, which may expose sensitive data to unauthorized per… Continue reading Omnicell reveals ransomware incident in SEC filing
KTVZ reports: A ransomware attack on a campaign finance firm has prompted the Oregon Elections Division to require that 1,100 users of the state’s online campaign contribution reporting system change their passwords, but Sectary of State Shemia F… Continue reading Cyber attack prompts security response by Oregon secretary of state
Natalie Chuck reports that another district in Colorado has sent letters to parents about the breach at Illuminate Education that impacted more than 820,000 students in New York City as well as 24 other districts and 18 charter schools in NY: Someone, … Continue reading Another school district notifies parent of Illuminate breach
Jared Goffinet reports on a third-party breach affecting some Ohio schools: A ransomware attack of a third-party data company may impact some current and former Lakota Local Schools students. Battelle for Kids was the recent victim of a data breach, ac… Continue reading Current, former Lakota Local Schools students possibly impacted by third-party data breach
Olivia Brown reports: Courier company Mailpac Group Limited, and Florida, United States-based logistics management and package delivery company, Aeropost, have come under fire over an email informing customers of a credit card breach. One customer shar… Continue reading Mailpac customers affected by Aeropost data breach