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Southeastern Louisiana University Says Hackers Didn’t Get Personal Info

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(TNS) — Six months after Southeastern Louisiana University’s systems were taken offline in response to a cybersecurity attack, the school announced Thursday that no personal identifiable information or educational records were stolen in the incident.

Southeastern took its network offline Feb. 23 in response to the security incident, which left students and faculty without access to the school’s website, email or portal for submitting assignments for nearly four weeks while officials worked with Louisiana State Police to investigate the incident.

The school said in a statement it worked with the Division of Administration, Louisiana National Guard, LSP, FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness during the investigative process.


“Investigations as complex as this take time, and it was important that the work was conducted with the highest level of diligence to ensure the most thorough and complete results possible,” the university wrote in its statement.

While neither Southeastern nor LSP have provided much detail about the incident, a cybersecurity expert with New Orleans and South East Information Technology Group, a Hammond-based cybersecurity firm, found 150 gigabytes of SELU data on the “dark web” in April, made available by a ransomware group named “BianLian.” The claim was also verified by sources at cybersecurity firm Postlethwaite & Netterville.

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Ransomware attackers steal personal info of over 600K Medicare beneficiaries

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  • Employees at the Office of Personnel Management will soon see changes to their in-office requirements. All eligible employees with telework agreements at OPM are expected to report to the office at least two days per week, starting this fall. The change will take place in a phased approach, beginning in September, and will be fully implemented by October. OPM is the latest in a long series of agencies to announce new in-the-office requirements, after the Office of Management and Budget told agencies to start ramping up in-person work after the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is responding to a major data breach at one of its contractors. CMS confirmed Maximus Federal Services was one of many organizations swept up by a ransomware attack on the MoveIT file transfer software in late May. CMS said the hackers were able to steal personal information on more than 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries. None of CMS’s internal systems was impacted by the attack. The agency and Maximus are sending letters to affected individuals.
  • Two lawmakers want to change how the federal employment process views marijuana. A new bipartisan bill in the House would prohibit agencies from denying someone a job or security clearance over current or past marijuana use. The bill was introduced by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) last week. It would also require agencies to establish a process for reviewing any decision dating back to 2008 that denied someone a federal job or clearance due to marijuana use. The legislation is the latest effort to loosen restrictions around federal employment and pot. Current policies still prohibit feds from using weed whether they are on or off the clock.
  • The FDIC has outlined its plan to better manage its cloud services. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will close three holes in how it manages its cloud computing services over the next year. The FDIC CIO told the agency’s inspector general that it will establish an enterprisewide catalog of data by February. It…

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Lehigh Valley Health Network hit by cyber attack. Here’s the patient info hackers stole

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Sandoz launches rival version of AbbVie’s arthritis drug Humira

The Novartis-owned company said its drug, Hyrimoz, will be priced at a 5% discount off Humira’s current list price of $6,922 per month, but that it was also offering an unbranded version of Humira at an 81% discount. Healthcare experts have said that drugmakers will probably launch their Humira biosimilars with small discounts to appeal to pharmacy benefit managers, which take some of their fees as a percentage of the discounts they negotiate on behalf of their customers – large employers and health insurance plans.

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State Department offers $10 million for info on ransomware gang

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The State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information linking the CL0p ransomware gang that is targeting U.S. networks for a foreign government.

The U.S. government is hunting for the identities behind the cybercriminal gang whose recent victims include the Energy Department and state government networks.

The State Department’s Rewards for Justice program tweeted Friday that it is prepared to offer the multimillion-dollar reward for information revealing the location or identity of people engaged in cyberattacks against U.S. networks at the behest of a foreign government.

“Do you have info linking CL0P Ransomware Gang or any other malicious cyber actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to a foreign government? Send us a tip,” the Rewards for Justice account tweeted. “You could be eligible for a reward.”

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