One School Software Vendor, More Than 1.3 Million People: The Frontline Education Breach by the Numbers
When a school district outsources HR, staff records or student health tracking to a software provider, it also hands that...
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No Cards, No ATMs: A Cyber Incident Sends Turning Stone’s Casinos and Stores in Central New York to Cash Only
A major Central New York casino resort was open for business on Tuesday but could not take a single credit...
Five Things to Know About the DHS Staff Directory Leak, and What It Shows About Identity Data
A leak of personnel records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has become one of the most closely watched...
The Hacker Behind the Fake AP Tweet That Rattled Wall Street Gets 42 Months: The Syrian Electronic Army Case File
In 2013, a single false post from the Associated Press’s Twitter account claimed President Barack Obama had been hurt in...
A Cleared Defense Contractor Lent His Identity to North Korea’s Remote Job Scheme. A Video Call That Did Not Match Helped Expose It
John Allen Kurrle Jr. had what remote job fraudsters want most: a real American identity and an active Top Secret...
Applied for College Aid in Florida? A Breach of the State’s Student Aid Website May Have Exposed Social Security Numbers for 4.9 Million People
The Florida Department of Education announced on Thursday that its student financial aid website was breached and that personal information...
808 School Systems Were Told Their Staff Logins Were for Sale. Here Is How Attackers Use One District to Break Into the Next
More than one in eight. That is the share of K-12 organizations in MS-ISAC, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis...
A Vendor’s Leaked Access Key Sat on a Public Website for 14 Months, Exposing 238,000 Denver Health Plan Members
No one broke down a door in this case. A key to a health plan’s data was simply left out...
Hour by Hour: How a Cyberattack Sent Ambulances Away From New Mexico’s Only Level 1 Trauma Center
On Monday, October 26, New Mexico briefly had no emergency department able to treat the most serious injuries. A cybersecurity...
One Spreadsheet, One Unapproved AI Tool, 3,182 Patients: The Johns Hopkins Bayview Exposure at a Glance
Most breach notices start with an intruder. This one starts with an ordinary task at a desk. A worker at...
