Erasmus University
November 30, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The Erasmus University is the victim of a breach affecting 270,000 students, whose personal information is compromised.
Pace University
November 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An Arizona man is arrested on charges that he hacked into over 1,000 email accounts for students and others at two universities, including Pace University in New York, and tried to do the same at 75 other higher-education institutions.
University of Central Florida
October 1, 2016
•[ financial, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a payment card data breach affecting at least 230 University of Central Florida students.
University of Regina
June 30, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Three University of Regina computers are hacked. Names, student and employee numbers, as well as social insurance numbers, may have been accessed.
Unknown Organization
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Hackers hit the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Schools Classics Project website, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees.
North Carolina State University
June 3, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals.
Arkansas Library Association
May 26, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) leaks details of 800 library workers from the Arkansas Library Association (ALA).
University of Limpopo
May 13, 2016
•[ hack, leak, education ]
New World Hackers (NWH), one of the hacking crews participating in the Anonymous #OpAfrica campaign, leak data obtained after hacking and then defacing the website of the University of Limpopo from the town of Polokwane, South Africa.
Archdiocese of Denver
April 21, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Archdiocese of Denver notifies 18,000 individuals to have discovered a breach happened on November 2015 after an unauthorized person accessed an Archdiocese of Denver database maintained by a third-party.
Unknown Organization
May 10, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The Utkal University portal is taken down after it is defaced.
University of Liverpool
April 5, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
A University of Liverpool database of 6,500 staff is posted on dark web forum. Leaked data includes: name, address and work email addresses.
Ain Shams University
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks the Staff Management Portal of the Ain Shams University (staff.asu.edu.eg) and dumps 2,280 records.
Janet
April 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
British government-funded educational network Janet is hit by a DDoS.
Kentucky State University
March 22, 2016
•[ social, leak, phishing ]
Kentucky State University is the victim of a BEC scam: an employee, responding to an email supposedly from the school's president, sends off the 2015 W-2s for about 1000 employees and students.
Concordia University
March 21, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Concordia University warns the community about a possible computer security breach.
Unknown Organization
March 20, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The website of EC-Council, the professional organization that administers the Certified Ethical Hacker program, is compromised to redirect the visitors to an Angler Exploit Kit landing page, where the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware is injected.
Solano Community College
April 28, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
Olympia School District
April 13, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing attack compromises the identities of more than 2,100 employees of Olympia School DIstrict.
Unknown Organization
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Anonymous takes down the Dalhousie University website protesting a 2015 rape case, demanding punishment for the culprits.
Stanford University
April 4, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Unknown hackers infiltrate the systems of the systems of W-2Express, a third party vendor, and download the W-2 forms of 3,500 Stanford University employees.
