In November 2021, when “g0retrance” defaced the website of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) with a message saying “PWNED,” the hacker, who also used the moniker “netsaosa,” left a message under it “should have listened to my emails instead of ignoring me … don’t worry, this is harmless. just to get ur attention :)” Boston.com...

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There’s been an arrest in the Kido school cyberattack incident. itvX reports: Two people have been arrested after hackers stole information about thousands of children from a nursery chain. Two men aged 17 and 22 were arrested in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, the Metropolitan Police said. They remain in...

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As noted on Reddit, PowerSchool appears to have been one of many victims of the Salesloft Drift/Salesforce campaign by Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters. Like many other victims, PowerSchool did not disclose the incident publicly, but they did, however, post a notice in their closed users group. The notice was removed shortly thereafter, and several people have...

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DataBreaches did not mention this publicly sooner because Kido was already under great pressure due to the breach involving children’s personal information and photos.  But now that many people are feeling some relief that the hackers have supposedly deleted all the data and won’t be calling parents any more, DataBreaches can reveal that on Monday,...

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KSAT reports: The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District will close for most of next week after the district detected ransomware in its servers, according to district officials. The district will close from Sept. 15-18 and will exchange the dates it is closed with other previously scheduled non-working days integrated into the current UCISD calendar. The...

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Ninfa Saavedra reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying information and protected health information of more than 880,000 Texas school-aged children and teachers, including Houston ISD schools. According to Paxton, PowerSchool’s...

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Mallika Sheshadri reports: Kokomo Solutions, a technology vendor that provides Los Angeles Unified School District students with telehealth services and a tip line to report suspicious activity, has fallen prey to a data breach. The company noticed “unusual activity on our computer network” on Dec. 11, 2024 — but did not file a data breach notice with the...

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Keenan & Associates is a benefits consulting and insurance brokerage provider in California, providing services to several sectors, including healthcare entities and educational facilities. Between August 21, 2023 and August 27, 2023, an unauthorized user accessed information relating to certain of Keenan’s customers, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, driver’s license...

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