On July 11, 2016, the California Office of the Attorney General reported that KUSC experienced a data breach due to ransomware malware affecting its contractor, Comnet Marketing Group. The incident resulted in the deletion of a storage system containing customer demographic data and credit card information, although KUSC has no evidence that the credit card data was accessed by unauthorized users.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-62772
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kusc
"id": "kus549080425",
"linkid": "kusc",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "4/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Media',
'location': 'California',
'name': 'KUSC',
'type': 'Organization'}],
'attack_vector': 'Ransomware',
'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['Customer demographic data',
'Credit card information']},
'date_detected': '2016-07-11',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2016-07-11',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported that '
'KUSC experienced a data breach due to ransomware malware '
'affecting its contractor, Comnet Marketing Group. The '
'incident resulted in the deletion of a storage system '
'containing customer demographic data and credit card '
'information, although KUSC has no evidence that the credit '
'card data was accessed by unauthorized users.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Customer demographic data',
'Credit card information'],
'systems_affected': ['Storage system']},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2016-07-11',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'KUSC Data Breach Due to Ransomware',
'type': 'Data Breach'}