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A multistate lawsuit against software company Blackbaud has been settled, according to the North Carolina Attorney General’s office.  North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein recently announced the $49.5 million settlement with Blackbaud.  Multiple states had brought a suit against the software company for its deficient data security practices and response to a 2020 ransomware attack that exposed the personal information of millions of people across the country.  Why is this Important?

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The City of Durham, North Carolina has shut down its network after suffering a cyberattack by the Ryuk Ransomware on 07 March 2020.  Local media reports that the city fell victim to a phishing attack that ultimately led to the deployment of the Ryuk Ransomware on their systems.  Ryuk was developed by a Russian hacker group and finds its way into a network once someone opens a malicious email attachment. Once deployed, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual compu