Cyber Incidents

More than half reckon they couldn't last more than a day without cloud services

DysruptionHub reports: A suspected cyberattack disrupted work email, internet access, Google Drive and other applications at Oceanside Unified School District i

Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems

The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering parking lots. Law enforcement is tapping the data as a source for their growing surveillance systems. Jason Koebler for…

Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …

Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse

Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]

ShinyHunters has struck yet again.

Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.

ShinyHunters hacks Infinite Campus serving 11m students - threatens data leak

: Crims turned trusted mapping software into a hideout - no traditional malware required

Following a break-in at a county health contractor's office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data.

The records from staff, faculty and students date back to 1998 and include social security numbers, names and dates of birth.

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The federal government had a record number of data breaches in 2012, revealing sensitive personal information of its employees across multiple agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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California attorney general Kamala Harris said that encryption could have prevented a lot of data breaches.

Leaders of the House Veterans Affairs Committee suggest that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki may have been misled about multiple breaches of department computers since

According to Gemalto's 2018 Breach Level Index, 291 data records were compromised every second in the first half of this year, resulting in widespread identity theft, account and financial hacks, and more.

Customers’ names and email addresses posted on website, tech giant confirms

Data breaches are getting more expensive. That's one of the findings of a new global study by the Ponemon Institute that examines the financial impact of a corporate data breach.