University of Lincoln
October 14, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Iranian hackers with a history of launching phishing attacks against acedmic institutions have launched a new campaign, including against the University of Lincoln.
Yazoo County School District
October 12, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Yazoo County School District votes to pay a company $300,000 to recover files encrypted by ransomware threat actors.
Walled Lake Consolidated School District
October 12, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Walled Lake Consolidated School District says a system outage has been linked to a ransomware attack. Several weeks later, the DoppelPaymer threat actors dumped some limited data as proof of access to the district's systems.
Tyngsboro Middle School has suffered a DDoS attack.
October 9, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Tyngsboro Middle School has suffered a DDoS attack.
Tyngsboro High School has suffered a DDoS attack.
October 9, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Tyngsboro High School has suffered a DDoS attack.
Sandwich Public Schools
October 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Sandwich Public Schools suffered a week of connection issues which were determined to be the result of a DDoS attack.
Springfield Public Schools District
October 8, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Springfield Public Schools district in Massachusetts has become the victim of a ransomware attack that has caused the closure of schools while they investigate the cyberattack.
Scholarship America
October 7, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Scholarship America joins the list of the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
Shady Hill School
October 7, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Shady Hill School joins the list of the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL)
October 6, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
The Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) of the University of Mumbai postpones the exams after a cyber attack.
Heartland Community College
October 5, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Heartland Community College is working with outside consultants after detecting that an outside source had compromised some of its systems.
Unnamed Swiss university
October 5, 2020
•[ financial, hack, education ]
Hackers have managed to steal salary payments from employees at two unnamed Swiss universities.
Unnamed Swiss university
October 5, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Hackers have managed to steal salary payments from employees at an unnamed Swiss university.
Gulf Coast State College
October 4, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Gulf Coast State College has notified some students and employees that a hacker accessed several employees' email accounts.
Bay Shore School District
October 3, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Bay Shore School District is hit with a DDoS attack.
GeniusU
October 2, 2020
•[ leak, education ]
In November 2020, a collection of data breaches were made public including the "Entrepreneur Success Platform", GeniusU. Dating back to the previous month, the data included 1.3M names, email and IP addresses, genders, links to social media profiles and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Lindenhurst School District
September 29, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Lindenhurst School District is hit by a DDoS attack.
Bay Shore School District
September 29, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Bay Shore School District is hit by a DDoS attack.
Gulf Coast State College
September 28, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Some Gulf Coast State College students and employees receive a letter from school officials, about a data breach that took place back between March 31, 2020 and June 3, 2020, when a hacker accessed several employees' email accounts.
Cheverus High School
September 25, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Cheverus High School is among the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
