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'Security incident' involving criminal database hampering St. Louis area police operations, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Hacking, Other

KSDK

  • "For 24 hours now, the region’s largest criminal justice database system has been offline, making it difficult for police officers, jails and other law enforcement agencies to operate throughout the St. Louis area.”
  • "The Regional Justice Information Service, also known as REJIS, experienced a “security incident,” at about 3 p.m. Monday, and has been turned off ever since, said REJIS CEO Ryan Burckhardt.”
  • “REJIS is a private company that provides data processing services and online information systems for police and sheriffs' departments, prosecutors, courts, correctional institutions, and probation and parole agencies at the federal, state, county and local levels. It serves the City of St. Louis, 92 municipalities in St. Louis County, other communities in three adjacent Missouri counties and four counties in Illinois, according to the Department of Justice's website.”
  • ”The Missouri Department of Transportation also uses the system, which means the organization's mobile ticketing program and the law enforcement traffic system, which manages crash reports, as well as citation, warning, and complaint data, are currently offline, according to an internal document obtained by 5 On Your Side.”
  • ”Burckhardt said police departments and other REJIS clients, including corrections and other law enforcement agencies, have differing levels of service through REJIS. So the impact on the agency depends on the level of service.”
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Belton Police Department victim of malware attack, Cass County

Breach Type - Unknown, Malware

Fox 4

  • "The Belton Police Department said it’s been a victim of a malware attack and the attack impacted some office computers systems."
  • "The attack prevented the department from accessing files stored on some network computers."
  • “We immediately isolated and disconnected those systems from the network as a precaution, notified the FBI and launched an investigation with the assistance of a forensic firm.”
  • “If any individual’s personal information is identified through the investigation, we will provide notice and identity monitoring service to those individuals in accordance with applicable law.”
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City of Springfield & Berkeley City Hall and Police Headquarters, St. Louis County

Breach Type - Hacking, Malware

Fox 2 Now

  • Berkeley City Hall and Police Headquarters offline due to hack
  • Berkeley police officers cannot issue police reports or crash reports and cannot process payments or bonds at this time
  • Investigation is ongoing
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Marion County Jail and Law Enforcement Center, Marion Co.

Breach Type - Other, Malware

Hannibal Courier-Post

  • Virus wiped out everything stored in jail’s Lawman Records Management System
  • Jail inmate photos among the data lost
  • Sheriff reverted to simpler record-keeping system, utilizing typewriters for reports
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Hannibal Courier-Post

  • Computer device used for at-home work, compromised and introduced malware to Marion system
  • Most data recovered, and Sheriff remains confident the remaining data will be restored
  • Officer’s reports, filed through the cyber-attack, had to be redone
  • Cost of repairing entire system will take several thousand dollars from jail’s computer budget
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City of Springfield & Springfield Police, Greene County

Breach Type - Other/Computer Servers Down

Ozarks First

  • Servers that authenticate employee usernames and passwords are down
  • 911 officers hand-writing reports in the field
  • Backup paper processes used
  • Microsoft treating issue as a critical outage
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Kansas City Police Department - Jackson Co., Clay Co., Cass Co., & Platte Co.

Breach Type - Other/Server Shut Down

KSHB 41

  • Computers shut down unexpectedly at Kansas City Police Department
  • Dispatchers and Patrol officers temporarily without some equipment
  • Backup server kicked in & calls could be answered
  • Officers manually wrote up reports as precaution
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Camden Co. Sheriff's Department

Breach Type - Hack

ABC 17 News

  • Cyber-attack hits agency's network
  • IT department working to remediate situation
  • Announced via Facebook that a hack infiltrated system
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Warren County Sheriff's Department

Breach Type - Ransomware

The Daily Dot

  • Advanced malware causes sensitive data to transfer to hackers
  • Hackers expose confidential information online
  • Remains unclear if ransom was paid
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Local Government

Missouri's Medicaid clients alerted system was part of worldwide cyber attack, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Unknown, Data Breach

The Center Square

  • “Missouri’s Department of Social Services is encouraging citizens to monitor their identity and credit information after a third-party cyber attack in May."
  • “The department sent a media release on Tuesday encouraging Missourians to monitor any possible transactions made using their personal information as an unauthorized party might have accessed Medicaid participant information."
  • ”The data security incident involved a third-party application – Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer software – used by IBM. The MOVEit vulnerability affected hundreds of organizations throughout the nation and world and millions of individuals, according to an assessment by Reuters.”
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Mexico-Audrain County Library District Servers Attacked

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KXEO

  • ”Servers at the Mexico-Audrain County Library District are down following a suspected ransomware attack."
  • "According to District Director Christal Bruner, the District is working with not only their service provider but a third-party company to verify the attack and determine what can be done to resume normal operations..”
  • “The facilities remain open, but online databases, online card catalog and circulation services have all been disrupted.”
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Lambert Airport website restored after apparent cyberattack, flights not affected, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Hacking, DoS

KSDK.com

  • “St. Louis Lambert International Airport had its website targeted as part of a larger apparent cyberattack Monday, but officials said the airport was still functioning normally during the outage. Roger Lotz, a spokesman for Lambert Airport, said the website went down early Monday but was restored at around 3 p.m. He said the outage did not affect any of the operations at the airport.”
  • ”While the website was down, the airport set up a hotline for people to get information and access services typically found on the website. Passengers could also use their airline's website to find flight details like arrivals and departures.”
  • “The attacks followed a call by a shadowy group of pro-Russian hackers that calls itself Killnet for coordinated denial-of-service attacks on the targets. The group published a target list on its Telegram channel.”
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Joplin City Phone Service Restored After Cyber Attack

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

GovTech.com

  • “The Joplin Police Department notified the Globe on Wednesday morning that its computers were down and the newspaper would not be able to access crime reports.”
  • “Municipal court was forced to cease operations for the day due to a resulting inability to conduct case work.”
  • "Other city services affected by the issue: Online payments for trash and sewer bills or court fines could not be made. Payments for most departments require cash or check, card payments not accepted by many departments. The health department conducting limited investigations for communicable diseases. Limited basis services for temporary Medicaid applications, vital records, animal control dispatch and some vaccinations. COVID-19 vaccinations will still be available. Help with emergency situations, such as dog bites, should be sought through 911.”
  • “Public transportation services are affected”
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City of Joplin, Jasper County

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

Joplin Globe

  • "Telephone service has been restored to city of Joplin offices and departments after being disrupted in an early Wednesday cybersecurity intrusion."
  • "The attack disabled many of the city government’s computerized and online operations, including its internet telephone service."
  • "A City Hall statement on Thursday said that the systems affected had been isolated and the incident reported to law enforcement. City officials also consulted a cybersecurity firm to investigate the intrusion."
  • “This incident has not impacted our ability to provide police, fire or emergency services to our community.”
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City of Independence, Jackson County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KMBC

  • Numerous services taken out in cyberattack hit
  • Bad actors utilized ransomware to disable systems
  • IT and third-party professionals assisted with investigation
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St. Louis County Website, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Hacking, Other

STL Today

  • County disabled its website to mitigate cyberattack
  • Officials believed that sensitive data remained intact
  • IT personnel discovered that bad actors originated in China
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St. Genevieve County Government, St. Genevieve County

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

Ste. Genevieve Herald

  • Officials publicly released statements concerning a malicious cyber attack that impacted several courthouses
  • It is unknown if any sensitive information was accessed potentially exposing taxpayers or employee information
  • Once the attack was discovered actions were immediately taken in a preventative manner
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Camden County Government Systems, Camden County

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

Lake Expo

  • County IT personnel forced to hire third-party vendor for assistance
  • Officials believed personal and financial information remained safe
  • Federal law enforcement was notified of the cyberattack
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Grundy County Courthouse, Grundy County

Breach Type - Unknown, Malware

KTTN

  • County clerk among several county offices hit in cyberattack
  • Courthouse remained without computer access
  • Police and prosecutor's office remained unaffected
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City of Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

KFVS12

  • Missouri city hit with malware cyberattack
  • Officials were able to get some data back
  • Citizens left unable to pay bills online or in person
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Saline County Courthouse, Marshall County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Marshall News

  • It took almost a week to restore servers within the courthouse to nominal status following a virus
  • Staff worked over the weekend to restore their systems and fully clear the virus
  • Some PC's were still down at the time of the report but the ransomware had almost been fully removed allowing for work to continue
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CIty of Ashland, Boone County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KOMU

  • A cyber hack denied officials from accessing the networks and data within
  • The city is worried about what kind of information was exposed and whether it will impact all files
  • Investigations continued as the city still didn't have access to its internal files and extent of damage is unknown
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State Government Offices of Missouri

Phishing, Other

Spam Fighter

  • Hackers accessed an email system exposing thousands of state employees
  • Emails were sent to those potentially exposed stating the campaign was still in progress
  • Detection system was unable to block all emails but eventually the attack subsided
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City of Washington

Breach Type - Ransomware

eMissourian

  • Victim of ransomware attack that knocked network offline
  • City spent more than $416,000 in fees to a cyber security company
  • Company aimed to expedite process of replacing network and equipment
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St. Louis Public Library

Breach Type - Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • Hackers demand $35,000 in bitcoin
  • Library will refuse ransom
  • Entire computer system will be wiped and rebooted
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Platt County

Breach Type - Phishing

David Dyer Max Blog

  • Treasurer of Platt County received email from Commissioner, asking to transfer funds
  • Transfer was requested to go to an out of state consultant
  • Treasurer transferred funds without proper verification
  • County lost $48,000 as a result
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Medical

Tague Family Practice patient records stolen and hacked, St. Lewis County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • "On March 17, the threat actors added TFP to their leak site. More recently, they dumped data that certainly appears to be from the practice."
  • "The files pretty much all contained personal and protected health information, and much of it was sensitive."
  • “Personal information on employees was also included"
  • "DataBreaches.net does not know how many patients had their data accessed and/or acquired."
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Capital Region reaching out to patients about cyberattack, Cole County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • "The Capital Region Medical Center in Missouri has started notifying patients whose protected health information (PHI) was accessed during a ransomware incident in December, 2021 that left their phone systems and network down for several days."
  • "The types of PHI that may have been accessible include: first and last name, date of birth, full mailing address, medical information, and health insurance information. For some patients, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and financial account information may have been accessed."
  • "The notice does not indicate whether CRMC knows with any confidence whether any files were exfiltrated and/or leaked on the internet."
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Missouri Delta Medical Center silent about patient data dump and claimed ransomware attack, Westchester County

Breach Type – Hacking, Ransomware

DataBreaches.net

  • "Missouri Delta Medical Center (MDMC) might also be dealing with a ransomware attack by Hive threat actors. So far, however, MDMC has been tight-lipped about the claimed attack and has not responded to inquiries asking them to confirm or deny the claim."
  • "Hive claimed that they encrypted MDMC’s files on August 23. They also claim that they had exfiltrated 95000 Patient FULL INFO (NAME/SURNAME/DOB/SSN/ADDRESS/PHONE NO./ZIP/SEX/RACE/NEXT OF KIN/FULL MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS) + 400GB of Files from [Redacted by DataBreaches.net] including Patient and Employee data + Financial"
  • "…there are files that appear to be patient files with MDMC’s name and logo all over them."
  • "There is still no response from MDMC and no statement on their web site to alert patients to any possible data security incident."
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MO: Rockwood School District Provides Notice of Ransomware Incident, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

DataBreaches.net

  • "Rockwood School District today is providing information about a recent event that may impact the privacy of some personal data related to current and former employees and students."
  • “On June 17, 2021, the District discovered that certain computer systems in its network had been infected with malware which prevented access to certain files on those systems."
  • “The information contained within the files at issue varied by individual but contained names, addresses, Social Security number, date of birth, financial account information, District employee identification number, MOSIS identification number, and/or student records. The District does not have any evidence that information was subject to actual or attempted misuse."
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Perry County Memorial Hospital, Perry County

Breach Type – Hacking, Data Breach

Becker's Hospital Review

  • Bad actor accessed employee email accounts without authorization
  • Healthcare provider worked with external third-party IT vendors to assist
  • Patient names, dates of birth, and other private medical information was likely leaked
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Saint Luke's Health System, Wyandotte County

Breach Type – Unknown, Data Breach

Beckers Hospital Review

  • The blackbaud breach had no sensitive information exposed
  • Many different systems were exposed in the Blackbaud breach
  • Exposure is forcing medical systems to notify patients and donors about breach
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MU Health Care, Boone County

Breach Type – Phishing, Data Breach

Columbia Missourian

  • Healthcare center forced to offer credit monitoring services following data breach
  • Bad actors used third party software to breach security during cyberattack
  • Names, birthdates, medical record information among likely accessed files
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MU Health Care, Boone County

Breach Type – Phishing, Data Breach

Columbia Missourian

  • A data breach has been reported last fall concerning the MU Health care patient information
  • There is no known indication of misuse of exposed sensitive information however monitoring services are still being provided
  • A third party login system was used giving bad actors full access to MU student accounts
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BJC HealthCare, St. Louis City

Breach Type – Hacking, Data Breach

Becker's Hospital Review

  • Three employee emails were showing suspicious activity so an investigation was sparked
  • Investigations weren't able to determine if sensitive information was accessed while the account was compromised
  • Some information was potentially exposed with social securities and other patient information
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Betty Jean Kerr People's Health Center, St. Louis

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KSDK

  • Health center was victim of ransomware cyberattack
  • Roughly 150,000 individuals likely affected
  • Officials refused to pay ransom after files were locked
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Truman Medical Center, Jackson County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KCTV5

  • Truman Medical Center victim of ransomware attack, patient care unaffected
  • IT advised that patient personal information was not compromised
  • Officials negotiated with attackers, paid ransom to perpetrators via insurance
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Choice Rehabilitation, St. Louis County

Breach Type - Phishing, Data Breach

St. Louis Today

  • A corporate email account was compromised
  • Private emails were forwarded to a personal account
  • Emails included sensitive financial and medical information
  • It is suspected there is a low probability of risk or harm
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Blue Springs Family Care, Jackson Co.

Breach Type - Hacking, Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • Ransomware infected systems at Blue Springs Family Care
  • 44,979 patients notified about potential data breach
  • Blue Springs Family Care found multiple malware forms on system
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KCUR

  • Blue Springs refused to pay a ransom to threat actors
  • Systems were restored from backups
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Cass Regional Medical Center, Cass County

Breach Type - Ransomware

41 KSHB Kansas City

  • Cass Regional Medical Center diverted patients from hospital during malware attack
  • Ransomware compromised internal communications systems and EHR systems
  • Working with law enforcement and cyber security officials to stop cyber attack
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Children's Mercy Hospital, Jackson County

Breach Type - Phishing/Data Breach

Kansas City

  • Spear phishing scheme targeted Children's Mercy Hospital employees
  • Employees entered hospital credentials into malicious webpage
  • More than 60,000 individuals potentially affected in resulting data breach
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Black River Medical Center, Butler Co.

Breach Type - Phishing

Data Breaches

  • Black River Medical Center discovered phishing activity on its system
  • No evidence surfaced of accessed or misused patient PHI
  • Financial information & Social Security numbers unaffected
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Namaste Health Care

Breach Type - Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • Hackers gained remote access to Namaste's server & installed ransomware virus
  • Namaste took steps to protect patient data, ultimately deciding to pay ransom
  • Notified 1,600 patients of incident
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Burrell Behavioral Health

Breach Type - Hack

Data Breaches

  • Hackers gain access to employee email account
  • Forensic investigation could not determine if patient data accessed/misused
  • Offering free credit monitoring and identity restoration services
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Education

University of Missouri is second state organization to report possible data breach, Boone County

Breach Type – Unknown, Data Breach

My Courier Tribune

  • "The University of Missouri is informing current and former employees and students to be aware their personal information might have been accessed in a global data breach.”
  • ”The university posted a media release on Wednesday stating it was notified of the breach involving MOVEit, a software program used to move large data files between organizations. Last week, the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services notified state Medicaid recipients and other program participants that personal information could have been accessed through MOVEit by an unauthorized third party.”
  • ”The university notified federal law enforcement of the possible breach and began its own investigation. The system’s outside vendors that used the software also are investigating to determine what data and individuals might be impacted.”
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University of Missouri investigating after Russian hacking group claims cyberattack on system, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Hacking, Ransomware

KMOV

  • “The University of Missouri is investigating a possible cyberattack that may have breached their software and information."
  • “University spokesperson Christian Basi confirmed that the university is looking into the possibility of a breach.”
  • ”This comes after a Russian hacking group called “CL0P” claims they have successfully attacked the university system.”
  • ”Basi said the university is not just focusing on the Columbia campus but investigating the entire university system for possible attacks.”
  • ”Earlier in June, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an advisory after CL0P exploited a weakness in the Progress Software’s managed file transfer solution known as MOVEit Transfer.”
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Truman State University slowly recovering from ‘cybersecurity virus attack’, Adair County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

CBS News

  • “Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri said it is in the process of recovering from a “cybersecurity virus attack” last week that forced it to shut down the campus network and order all school-issued devices to be turned off."
  • “They urged anyone with a school-issued device to keep it turned off until the IT staff is able to “install the necessary security software on all Truman State-issued Windows-based devices.”
  • ”Online classes remain canceled until Thursday and employee email is likely to be available by the end of the week. In-person classes were not impacted but professors were unable to access digital classroom tools.”.
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Grain Valley School District investigates cyberattack, Jackson County

Breach Type – Hacking, Data Breach

FOX 4 KC

  • ”The Grain Valley School District confirms it is investigating a cyberattack.” “Basically what first went down was the printers,” student Nathan Rathmann said Wednesday about how his last three days have changed in school. “Then throughout the day, we had buggy Wi-Fi. Our power school went completely down, so they had to start taking our attendance by paper. It was depressing and not fun.”
  • "Rathman said teachers had to print things from home, so there’s been more writing so far this week on paper as opposed to typing. He said things got frustrating after a while.” “I got so used to doing all the online schoolwork that whenever they said, ‘Ah we’re going to do it all on paper today.’ I was like, ‘Ah, you gotta be kidding me.’ It was not very fun,” he said. “In a letter sent to families Tuesday, the district said it began investigating when the district experienced technical difficulties. The issues disrupted certain computer systems.”
  • ”We began an investigation and determined that we were the victim of a cyber-attack that used malware to encrypt certain systems. We are working diligently with third-party forensic specialists to investigate the incident, confirm its impact on our systems, and restore full functionality to our systems as soon as possible.”
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Washington University School of Medicine notifies patients of data breach, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Hacking, Data Breach

Becker Hospital Review

  • “St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine notified patients that a data breach had potentially exposed some of their personal health information."
  • “According to Washington University School of Medicine's website, the health system learned that an unauthorized person gained access to certain employee email accounts between March 4 and March 28."
  • "An investigation conducted March 24 was unable to determine whether the individual viewed any of the emails or attachments in the accounts, however, the health system did identify that the emails contained patient and research participant information, including names, dates of birth, addresses, medical records, patient account numbers and clinical information."
  • ”"To be safe, Washington University School of Medicine has begun mailing letters to individuals whose information was identified in the affected email accounts."
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Ozarks Technical Community College announces it was a victim of cyber fraud, Greene County

Breach Type – Unknown, Other

KY3.com

  • “Ozarks Technical Community College announced it was the victim of a cyber fraud incident that robbed the institution of nearly $900,000 this spring.”
  • “However, there was some good news in the fact that the school’s computer system was not hacked nor was this a case of Ransomware where hackers shut down an entire system until they’re paid money.”
  • “Because the investigation is ongoing, law enforcement agencies have requested that OTC not disclose any details, including which agencies are involved.”
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Missouri school district's employee data dumped by ransomware group, Jasper County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • “Over the past weekend, threat actors known as Vice Society dumped data from Carthage R-9 district in Carthage, Missouri.”
  • “We are experiencing a network outage affecting information technology systems and phone systems, and are working to restore access. On December 14, 2021, our IT staff noticed suspicious activity on the network and immediately implemented our incident response protocols, disconnected network access, and took systems offline to protect our network.”
  • ”We are treating this matter with the highest priority. As part of our response process, we engaged many consultants, including independent forensic specialists, who are working to help us investigate the suspicious activity and resolve the outage. We are committed to completing a detailed analysis of our internal systems and will take all appropriate action in response to its findings.”
  • "When contacted about the incident, a spokesperson for Vice Society informed DataBreaches.net that the attack occurred in the middle of December and the district had not made them a good offer to delete the files. Because they were busy in December, the spokesperson wrote, they did not spend a lot of time looking for good files from the district.”
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Affton School District, St. Louis County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Data Breaches

  • A total of 1,183 people had their data dumped by threat actors after a ransomware attack
  • Names and SSNs were compromised, among other things
  • The district is offering credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services
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Park Hills School District, Platte County

Breach Type – Unknown, Malware

KSHB Kansas City

  • Park Hills School District was forced to cancel classes Monday, March 22, 2021
  • An investigation by national experts is now ongoing
  • The district did have safety systems in place to protect student data
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West County School District, St. Francois County

Breach Type – Unknown, Data Breach

Daily Journal Online

  • School district announced that it was potentially a victim of cyberattack last year
  • Officials stated that cases of identity theft had not yet occurred
  • Attack was ultimately assigned to third-party IT professionals for investigation
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University of Missouri, Boone County and Phelps County

Breach Type – Unknown, Data Breach

Linn County Leader

  • Donors for the University of Missouri were affected in large scale Blackbaud attack
  • Hackers were able to gain access to personal data stored on the cloud based services
  • Payment information was not collected but personal information including addresses, dates of birth, and more were collected
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Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, Wyandotte County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KCTV News 5

  • College officials announced data had been encrypted following cyberattack
  • Bad actors utilized ransomware in their hit against the college
  • Names, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, and more were among leaked information
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Three Rivers College, Butler County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

Darnews

  • College forced to cease operations following cyberattack
  • School IT, third-party firm, and federal law enforcement investigated
  • Officials believed data was not lost thanks to insurance coverage
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St. Louis Community College, St. Louis

Breach Type – Phishing, Data Breach

KSDK

  • Bad actors used phishing in cyberattack against college
  • Compromised accounts secured quickly
  • Over 5,000 people's private information was exposed
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Ava School District, Douglas County

Breach Type – Unknown, Ransomware

KY3

  • School district victim of ransomware cyber attack, printers hacked and printed notes demanding money
  • Officials confirmed personal and student information was not compromised in attack
  • School officials discovered various potential weak points in their security, corrected where possible
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Missouri Southern State University, Jasper County

Breach Type - Phishing, Data Breach

Document Cloud

  • The university fell victim to a phishing scam that was able to copy all information on an employee’s Office 365 Account
  • Several methods to stop the spread were taken as an IT investigation firm was consulted taking steps in further prevention
  • All the accounts that were exposed mainly contained sensitive information suck as social security, full names, dates of birth and more
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Odessa School District

Breach Type - Phishing

Data Breaches

  • Odessa School District falls victim to spear-phishing scheme
  • Hackers posed as district superintendent
  • Employee sent W-2 information exposing employees' private information
  • Odessa one of 8 districts targeted in Missouri phishing scheme
  • Superintendent alerted staff to monitor their financial information
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Trenton R-9 District

Breach Type - Phishing

Trenton Republican Times

  • Trenton District hit with spear phishing scheme
  • Employee exposed W-2 information to hackers
  • All 2016 Trenton District Employees potentially affected
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Independence School District

Breach Type - Phishing

KCUR

  • Independence School District falls victim to phishing scam
  • Hackers stole private & financial data of district employees
  • Fraudulent income tax returns filed by bad actors
  • District instructed employees to file independently if they received a notice from the IRS
  • District has taken further steps to prevent future attacks
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Washington University School of Medicine

Breach Type - Phishing

JD Supra

  • During Knox County elections, hackers launch DDoSEmployee fell victim to phishing scheme
  • Hacker accessed the infected email accounts
  • Gained access to private information on 80,000 patients
  • University discovered breach one month after its occurrence
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