University of Massachusetts-Amherst
March 28, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer sends out a massive racist print job on the networks of several US universities, including Princeton University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Brown University, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke College.
Tidewater Community College
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tidewater Community College reports that the tax information of all those employed at the school in 2015 (3000 employees) is taken in a spear phishing scam.
cplusplustutor
March 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks cplusplustutor.com and dumps 5,596 usernames and hashed passwords.
West Bloomfield School District
March 11, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
West Bloomfield School District officials send an email to parents saying a security breach to their network exposed certain student information.
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
March 17, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation notifies past applicants that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may have been stolen by hackers.
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, education ]
A British judge has ruled against extraditing Christopher Taylor, a Wigan man who is alleged to have hacked hundreds of webcams around the globe, to the United States. Taylor was apprehended after it was discovered that he installed malware on a laptop at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
University of Virginia
January 22, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Virginia admits to have been targeted by a data breach which has placed the private data of employees at risk. Cyberattackers were able to access a component of the HR system, leading to the exposure of information belonging to approximately 1,400 Academic Division employees.
University of Central Florida
February 4, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Central Florida (UCF) admits that hackers broke into its systems and stole the personal details of more than 63,000 staff and students. The breach was discovered in early January.
Pickens County School District
February 26, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Pickens County School District is flooded by a DDoS attack.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)
January 8, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The results of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 for the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad are leaked before being officially released.
Rutgers University
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Rutgers University is the target of a large-scale DDoS attack that keeps some of its systems down for four days between December 24 and December 28.
Jewish Free School
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Tunisian Fallaga Team defaces the website of Europe's largest Jewish school, JFS, posting a message that calls for an end to Islamophobia and aggression against Muslims.
TAFE Queensland
November 10, 2015
•[ leak, education ]
TAFE Queensland has experienced a breach that has seen the personal details of thousands of the state's TAFE students exposed.
Pearson VUE
November 23, 2015
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Technology certification management provider Pearson VUE is the victim of a computer security breach after malware compromises its Credential Manager System.
Janet
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
UK publicly-funded academic computer network Janet comes under a persistent DDoS attack today.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology
November 12, 2015
•[ financial, malware, education ]
More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have their credit card information stolen by a suspected card reader vulnerability.
Wichita Public Schools
October 26, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Wichita, Kansas public school system is investigating a possible hacking attempt on one of its networks that took place on Oct. 23.
Anandamohan College
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
A Pakistani hacker dubbed Virushacker defaces several colleges across Kolkata including: Mohan College, Maharaja Manindra College, and Anandamohan College.
North Oldham High School
September 25, 2015
•[ hack, malware, education ]
North Oldham High School alerts 2,800 current and former students that a data breach earlier this month could have exposed their names, social security numbers and other personal information after a school computer falls victim to a drive-by attack.
University of Calgary
September 27, 2015
•[ financial, education ]
The employee records of a number of University of Calgary staff members are fraudulently accessed, and banking records altered, during an "isolated breach".
