Ulster University
June 16, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Ulster University is also hit by ransomware.
Confluence Charter Schools
May 6, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The network servers for Confluence Charter Schools are hacked, but school leadership say there is no evidence that student or employee data have been compromised.
Wellington's Victoria University
May 2, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Students and staff of Wellington's Victoria University have been warned their usernames and passwords may have been compromised following a data breach following an unauthorised access to the university's IT systems.
University College London
June 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
University College London is hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brings down its shared drives and student management system. The attack also leads to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.
University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
Salem State University Twitter Account
May 20, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Salem State University officials apologize after several racist tweets (against Black Lives Matter) were sent out when the school's Twitter account was hacked (@SalemState).
Blackburn High School
May 19, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
Police investigate a major privacy breach at Blackburn High School, which saw the personal information of families, including their phone numbers, addresses and Medicare details, published online.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
May 12, 2017
•[ espionage, education ]
Reports emerge that two Singapore universities suffered APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks last month, with the attackers specifically targeting government and research data.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
June 18, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
It looks like two months before the U.S. Presidential Elections. MoRo, a group of hackers from Morocco allegedly tried to hack the US voting systems. In an attempt, they hacked four school districts from Florida, including the Miami-Dade School District.
Greenwood County School District 50
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
About 3,300 are affected by a security breach after the school discovers that an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees' emails as well as current and former employees' payroll accounts in January and February.
University of Louisville
April 7, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees is compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents.
North Mundham Primary in Chichester
April 23, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Police are investigating after "malicious" messages are left on a school website by Turkish nationalists in an apparent hacking attempt.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
April 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Cleveland Metropolitan School District discloses a phishing-related incident.
AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance)
April 12, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
Data relating to 64,000 current and former examiners stored on some of AQA's online systems are stolen by attackers, including examiners' name, address, personal phone numbers, and passwords.
Queensland School Photography
March 9, 2017
•[ financial, education ]
Queensland School Photography emails students' parents to notify that payment card information has been compromised.
Kennesaw State University
March 1, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
St. Mary's Catholic Academy
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers break into CCTV systems of at least four British schools and stream footage of pupils live on the internet. St. Mary's Catholic Academy and Christ The King Academy Primary School are two fo the victims.
Westminster College
April 17, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Westminster College in Missouri reveals the details of a breach discovered on March 26 after a phishing scam duped a staffer into sending off W-2 statements.
University of Idaho
March 6, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after a phishing incident.
South Washington County School District
February 22, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The South Washington County school district tightens security after a high school student hacks into the district's server and takes names, Social Security numbers and some addresses.
