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.
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.
Toledo Public Schools
September 8, 2020
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Toledo Public Schools experienced an apparent DDoS attack at the beginning of September.
Newcastle University
September 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Newcastle University is attacked by the DoppelPaymer ransomware operators.
University Tor Vergata
September 4, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The University Tor Vergata in Rome is hit with a ransomware attack.
Maynooth University
September 3, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
Maynooth University is another victim of the Blackbaud hack.
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.
Timberline Billing Services, Inc.
September 2, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Timberline Billing Services, Inc., which provides Medicaid billing and reimbursement services to more than 190 schools in Iowa, has reported a ransomware attack in which the attacker was able to encrypt and exfiltrate information on its networks.
Mansfield City Schools
September 1, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Mansfield City Schools in Ohio are apparently hit by ransomware, but personal data was not exposed.
National Board of Certified Counselors
August 31, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The National Board of Certified Counselors is providing information about a security incident where its network was infiltrated by malware which prevented access to certain files. The threat actor who introduced the malware also acquired certain files.
Northumbria University
August 31, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Northumbria University is hit with what appears to be a ransomware attack.
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.
Greenville Technical College
August 30, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Greenville Technical College claims to have recovered from a ransomware attack and that no personal data was affected. However, the hackers claim that they stole 600 GB of sensitive data.
Selma Unified School District
August 28, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Selma Unified School District is hit by ransomware.
Clark County School District
August 28, 2020
•[ leak, education ]
Clark County schools in Las Vegas notify parents of a "data security incident" involving district computers.
Pandu Riono
August 28, 2020
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Twitter account of Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist from the University of Indiana, is hacked.
Piedmont Community College
August 24, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Piedmont Community College in North Carolina has been hit with ransomware.
Haywood County Schools
August 24, 2020
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The SunCrypt Ransomware shuts down the Haywood County School district.
Lee County High School
August 24, 2020
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
A virtual Spanish class was interrupted with offensive content at Lee County High School.
Rialto Unified School District
August 24, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
A cyber-attack has shut down virtual classes in the Rialto Unified School District.
