Floral Park-Bellerose School District
September 16, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Floral Park-Bellerose school district officials announced that the district's computer system had been infected with a ransomware.
Valapraiso Community Schools
September 18, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A 13-year-old Benjamin Franklin Middle School student was arrested and faces a felony charge of hacking into Valparaiso Community Schools' computer system in the wake of ongoing disruptions in online learning.
Chesterfield County Public Schools
September 11, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Unknown users are disrupting virtual classrooms in Chesterfield County public schools.
Somerset Hills School District
September 10, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
After one day of classes, the Somerset Hills School District closed down the schools on Tuesday because it said there was an "unexpected network disruption." The disruption was later revealed to be ransomware.
Fort Dodge Community School District
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
The Fort Dodge Community School District is the victim of a cyberattack.
Toledo Public Schools
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Toledo Public Schools experienced an apparent DDoS attack at the beginning of September.
Pickens County School District
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Pickens County School District said that the recent outages on school and student devices were caused by a DDoS attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services.
St. Bonaventure University
September 14, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The St. Bonaventure University is also hit by the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
Toledo Public Schools
September 8, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Toledo Public Schools experienced a ransomware attack and the threat actors dumped TPS data a month later.
Millstone Township School District
September 11, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The threat actors known as "Conti" have claimed that they are responsible for the attack on Millstone Township School District. That claim was made on Conti's dark web leak site on September 11.
Fairfax County Public Schools
September 11, 2020
•[ ransomware, leak, malware ]
There was nothing on the homepage of Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia that would indicate any cyberattack or problem, but the ransomware threat actors known as Maze had listed the FCPS on its leak site this week and provided some files as proof of access/acquisition.
Toledo Public Schools
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Toledo Public Schools also experience a security breach where a hacker got ahold of a classroom passcode and broke in to post racially and sexually offensive comments.
College of Nurses of Ontario
September 8, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The College of Nurses of Ontario has been dealing with a "cyber security incident" that may have compromised the personal information of its almost 200,000 members. The name of the college and some of its information appears on a website associated with ransomware attacks.
University Tor Vergata
September 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The University Tor Vergata in Rome is hit with a ransomware attack.
Newhall School District
September 14, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Newhall School District was forced to cancel online classes after being hit with a ransomware attack.
Guilford Technical Community College
September 13, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Guilford Technical Community College is hit with ransomware.
Trinity West Elementary School
September 9, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A hacker was able to access a virtual classroom at Trinity West Elementary School and introduce offensive comments.
Newcastle University
September 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Newcastle University is attacked by the DoppelPaymer ransomware operators.
Oregon State University
September 3, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A hacker has accessed an Oregon State University Ecampus server that contained student and faculty directory information such as email addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses. No social security numbers were compromised in the incident.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
August 31, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) have suffered daily DDoS attacks since the start of the school year.
