Monticello Central Strict District
January 12, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Monticello Central School District warns of a sophisticated e-mail phishing attack occurred on November 1st, 2017. Potentially 2,598 individuals are affected.
Proctor School District
December 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Proctor school district is hit by ransomware.
Warwick Rowers
December 5, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The website of a naked charity calendar featuring male rowers at Warwick University is taken down by a DDoS attack after having allegedly offended Russia's "gay propaganda" laws.
Clarion University
December 7, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Clarion University employees are notified after two employees fall victim of a phishing attack.
Xinmin Secondary School
November 18, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
Xinmin Secondary School is discovered to have been breached when names and identity card numbers of its students have been leaked on pastebin.
Tenafly High School
December 1, 2017
•[ insider, misconfiguration, education ]
Tenafly High School informs parents that a student has gained access to its internal IT systems, changed grades to improve his GPA, and sent out college applications immediately after.
J. Sterling Morton school district
November 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
An in-development home made ransomware named J. Sterling Ransomware is discovered. This ransomware strain targets the high school students of the J. Sterling Morton school district in Cicero, Illinois by pretending to be a student survey.
Osaka University
December 13, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Osaka University says that personal data of around 80,000 students, graduates, staff, former workers and others may have been stolen by hackers.
Jerome School District
December 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Jerome School District falls victim to ransomware.
SchoolDesk
November 6, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers from Team System Dz deface hundreds of websites across the US to post pro-ISIS messages, images of Saddam Hussein and a recruitment video. SchoolDesk, the Atlanta, Georgia-based web hosting company servicing these sites, confirmed the attack.
Columbia Falls High School
September 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, education ]
The Dark Overlord sends a threatening ransom note to the Columbia Falls (Montana) school district forcing officials to shutter its schools to ensure the safety of the students.
San Ysidro School District
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Malware infects the San Ysidro School District, deleting emails and forcing the district to temporarily shut down part of its systems.
West Australian TAFE
September 5, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
An attacker infiltrates the systems of a West Australian TAFE on August 28 and September 5 and accesses the sensitive personal details of staff and more than 13,000 students.
The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO)
September 19, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Irish National Teachers Organisation warns users of its online learning portal that their personal data may have been compromised following the hacking of the website. Around 30,000 users details were potentially compromised by the hack.
MacEwan University
August 23, 2017
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
MacEwan University staffers are tricked into transferring $11.8 million into scammers' bank accounts. The majority of the money, $11.4 million, has been traced to bank accounts in Montreal and Hong Kong.
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School is taken down after being hacked.
Newcastle University
July 20, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Newcastle University issues an alert, warning prospective students to be careful when seeking to apply and pay online for courses, after discovering the existence of a sophisticated phishing scam.
The Harvard Crimson
May 25, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The website of Harvard's 144-year-old newspaper is defaced and posts fake stories and an altered picture of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who was visiting the institution).
University of California Los Angeles
May 18, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
UCLA reports a cyberattack against a Summer Sessions & International Education Office server that contains personal information provided by students. The attack happened on May 18 and affects potentially up to 32,000 students.
Pekin Community High School
April 30, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack takes down Pekin Community High School.
