Blacon High School
January 17, 2025
•[ ransomware, education ]
Blacon High School announces a temporary closure after falling victim to a "ransomware attack".
Addison Northwest School District
January 7, 2025
•[ ransomware, education ]
The Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) suffers a ransomware attack.
Have Fun Teaching
August 15, 2021
•[ leak, hack, financial ]
In August 2021, the teaching resources website Have Fun Teaching suffered a data breach that leaked 80k WooCommerce transactions which were later posted to a popular hacking forum. The data contained 27k unique email addresses along with physical and IP addresses, names, payment methods and the item purchased. Have Fun Teaching is aware of the incident.
University of Central Florida
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
University of Maryland, College Park
January 1, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2009
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Stanford University
January 1, 2008
•[ leak, education ]
lost / stolen computer
Ohio State University
January 1, 2010
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Kirkwood Community College
January 1, 2013
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Australian National University
January 1, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
TehetségKapu
March 26, 2025
•[ leak, education ]
In March 2025, almost 55k records were breached from the Hungarian education office website TehetsgKapu. The data was subsequently published to a popular hacking forum and included email addresses, names and usernames.
Florida Virtual School
February 12, 2018
•[ leak, education ]
In March 2018, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) posted a data breach notification to their website. The school had identified a data breach which had occurred sometime between 6 May 2016 and 12 Feb 2018 and an XML file containing 368k student records was subsequently found circulating. Each record contained student name, date of birth, password, grade, email and parent email resulting in a total of 543k unique email addresses. Due to the prevalence of email addresses belonging to individuals who are still legally children, the data breach has been flagged as "sensitive".
