Tangipahoa Parish School System phone lines and email will be offline for the most part on Monday as a precaution after district officials discovered a potential cybersecurity issue on their network Sunday evening.

A K12.com database containing almost 7 million student records was left open so that anyone with an internet connection could access it, says a news report. 

The Governor of the State of Louisiana John Bel Edwards has declared a state of emergency due to severe, intentional cybersecurity breaches.

The cost of a data breach has risen 12 percent over the past 5 years and now costs $3.92 million on average, according to IBM's study. 

Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for the decisions it makes about its users’ privacy.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA“) issued its first GDPR-fine of EUR 460,000 or $515,936. The fine was imposed on the Dutch Haga Hospital for having an insufficient internal security of patient records.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration officers at LaGuardia Airport stopped a Kansas resident from bringing the trigger and body of a 3D imprinted handgun past the security checkpoint on Wednesday, July 3.

The State Education Department said that it is not allowing the Lockport City School District to use or test its facial recognition security system. 

Sixty-nine percent of survey respondents are still storing some data on premises, which can lead to data and security breaches as 42 percent still experience accidental insider threats, says a report. 

Thirty-two percent of businesses and 22 percent of charities are experiencing more cybersecurity attacks, the 2019 Cyber Security Breaches Survey says.