Children among 26,000 people impacted by Dallas ransomware attack, city employee says
In early May, hackers accessed names, addresses, medical data and other information through city government servers.
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In early May, hackers accessed names, addresses, medical data and other information through city government servers.
Victims include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Georgia, the BBC and British Airways.
A spokesperson for the agency said they had detected an "active attack" targeting their network.
The Mansfield Independent School District is investigating a cyberattack attack, which impacted communications systems across the district Monday, administrators said.
McKinney Methodist Hospital and two nearby surgical centers were targets of a cyber security attack last month by a notorious group of Russian hackers.
As the Biden administration continues to issue sanctions against Russia, there's growing concern about large-scale cyberattacks putting Americans at risk.
The 238 reported breaches since September 2021 impacted more than 2.4 million Texans, according to state data.
Gov. Abbott cites enhanced potential for Russian cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and private businesses in the United States.
The company name, type of personal information stolen, and how many Texans affected will be listed on the state website for anyone to see.
Dallas ISD said it is notifying those whose records have been impacted.
The cyberattack on world's largest meat producer, JBS, is the latest in a growing number of hits on U.S. businesses and infrastructure.
Experts say the cybersecurity jobs are out there, but there's a shortage of workers with those skills.
The nation's largest fuel pipeline restarted operations Wednesday, days after it was forced to shut down by a gang of hackers.
The operator of a major U.S. fuel pipeline -- that runs from Texas to the northeast -- said it hopes to have services mostly restored by the end of the week after a massive cyberattack.
The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. was carried out by a criminal gang.
It's called Trickbot and Microsoft says it has taken down servers behind the malware network that they feel could have indirectly affected election infrastructure.
A computer outage at a major hospital chain had healthcare facilities in Texas and across the U.S. into chaos Monday, with treatment impeded as doctors and nurses were forced to rely on paper backup systems.
A Massachusetts school district was waiting Friday for its computer system to be "unlocked" after it paid a $10,000 bitcoin ransom to hackers following a cyberattack on its system.
Employees booting up computers at work Monday could see red as they discover they're victims of a global "ransomware" cyberattack that created chaos in 150 countries and could wreak even greater havoc as more malicious variations appear.
U.S. intelligence sources are not just pointing fingers at Russian hackers, but squarely at the Kremlin for a cyberattack that began in July of 2015 -- more than a year before the presidential election.
