Damien Fisher reports: The Wi-Fi service got restarted last week at Sunapee Middle High School, eight weeks after a ransomware attack took out the school’s data. The October attack was discovered first by the district’s technology team when it was determined that all of the data was encrypted, said Superintendent Russell Holden. With a...
Susanne Cervenka and David P. Willis report: Hackensack Meridian Health said its “core clinical systems” were back online after disruptions impacted computers at the state’s largest hospital network for much of the week. NJ Advance Media, citing an unidentified hospital IT professional, reported that doctors briefed on the disruptions were told Hackensack Meridian’s “systems were shut down...
Brian Krebs reports: A Colorado company that specializes in providing IT services to dental offices suffered a ransomware attack this week that is disrupting operations for more than 100 dentistry practices, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Multiple sources affected say their IT provider, Englewood, Colo. based Complete Technology Solutions (CTS), was hacked, allowing a potent strain of ransomware...
From the Cucamonga Valley Water District website, a Dec. 4 notification: Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) was recently informed of a data breach of the Click2Gov web portal used by CVWD customers for one-time credit card payments. CVWD values its customers and respects the privacy of their information, which is why, as a precautionary...
Kaley Johnson reports more trouble for Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies: About 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department may have had had their information stolen due to a data breach, a department spokeswoman said. Those impacted would have made a one-time payment for Fort Worth water with a credit card between Aug. 27 and...