Collaborate Disseminate
Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely-used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department offic… Continue reading Data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack of online grading system: Education Dept.
Oops — I missed this one last week. George W. Rhodes reported: The computer system of a Mansfield company that does background checks for employers was hacked and the perpetrators got away with the personal information of 164,000 people. Creative… Continue reading Mansfield company hacked, personal information stolen
Sarah Motter reports: A data breach at a Blue Cross Blue Shield subcontractor has left about 2,800 members at risk, however, the company has taken steps to ensure their information stays secure. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas says on Thursday, Ma… Continue reading BCBS of Kansas subcontractor offers free protection to members put at risk by data breach
Arijit Sarkar reports: New Jersey-based crypto financial institution BlockFi confirmed a data breach incident via one of its third-party vendors, Hubspot. BlockFi’s proactive warning about the breach aims to deter the intentions of bad actors in repurp… Continue reading BlockFi confirms unauthorized access to client data hosted on Hubspot
Joseph Pedrajas reports that there is an update to the alleged data breach that a Commission on Elections official called “fake news:” After about two months of investigation and various denials from different concerned agencies, lawmakers … Continue reading Ph: ‘Media was right’: Lawmakers confirm data breach, hacking of voters’ info
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: A healthcare services contractor has agreed to pay a $933,000 settlement in a federal whistleblower case involving alleged false claims by the entity about the security of electronic medical records containing the infor… Continue reading Comprehensive Health Services Pays False Claims Act Settlement Involving EMR Security
Alaina Lancaster reports: More than 60,000 additional confidential attorney discipline records were exposed in a data breach of the State Bar of California’s case management system, according to an ongoing investigation. The bar’s IT incident response … Continue reading State Bar Breach Exposed Thousands More Confidential Records Than Original Estimates, Investigation Shows
A class action lawsuit has been filed in a California federal court against workplace management software company UKG Inc. UKG makes timekeeping and payroll management software and offers Kronos Private Cloud services. As a result of a ransomware atta… Continue reading Class action lawsuit against UKG over Kronos Private Cloud ransomware incident
Jan Vermeulen reports: South African Nespresso distributor Top Coffee has sent a notice to clients informing them that their names, phone numbers, and email addresses may have been leaked. According to the notice, the personal information may have been… Continue reading Nespresso data leak in South Africa
Anton Nilsson reports: NSW agencies may have delayed reporting a massive cyber attack to authorities for nearly a month, officials revealed on Monday. The breach of a software known as Accellion in December 2020 affected businesses and agencies worldwi… Continue reading Long delay before Cybersecurity NSW notified of Accellion hack