Hamden Schools
January 6, 2020
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Public schools in Hamden are taken down by a malware attack.
Wallace State Community College
January 6, 2020
•[ hack, education ]
The Wallace State Community College is hit by a cyber attack.
Richmond Community Schools
December 27, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Richmond Community Schools are hit with a ransomware attack.
Maastricht University (UM)
December 23, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Maastricht University (UM) announces that almost all of its Windows systems have been encrypted by ransomware following a cyber-attack that took place on December 23.
Juniata College
December 21, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Juniata College reveals the details of a phishing incident occurred in March 2019.
Justus Liebig University
December 17, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The Justus Liebig University is hit with an Emotet malware attack and as consequence 38,000 students and staff are asked to change their password.
KH - Katholische Hochschule Freiburg (Catholic University in Freiburg)
December 17, 2019
•[ malware, education ]
Katholische Hochschule Freiburg is also hit with an Emotet infection.
Baton Rouge Community College
December 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Baton Rouge Community College servers and computers are shut down following a ransomware attack.
City of Pensacola
December 9, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A Maze ransomware attack cripples the city of Pensacola's computer communication systems. The attackers demand $1M ransom.
Walla Walla University
December 9, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Walla Walla University is disrupted by a ransomware attack.
WebSAMS
December 6, 2019
•[ hack, leak, education ]
Hackers break into WebSAMS (web-based school administrative and management system), a government system used by most of Hong Kong's schools, as a consequence eight schools are breached, with three of them reporting data leaks.
Sycamore School District 427
December 3, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Sycamore School District 427 is hit with a ransomware attack.
Maine School Administrative District 6
December 2, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Maine School Administrative District 6 is hit with a ransomware attack.
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
December 1, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack takes down the ticketing system and patron database for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and has also affected at least one other organization in the Madison area (the Museum of Early Trades and Crafts).
Waterloo Catholic District School Board
November 24, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board is hit by a ransomware attack.
TaiLieu
November 24, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In November 2019, the Vietnamese education website TaiLieu allegedly suffered a data breach exposing 7.3M customer records. Impacted data included names and usernames, email addresses, dates of birth, genders and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com after being shared on a popular hacking forum. TaiLieu did not respond when contacted about the incident.
Livingston School District
November 22, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Livingston School District is hit by ransomware.
Southern First Nations Network of Care
November 21, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Southern First Nations Network of Care'is hit by a ransomware attack.
Chicopee Public Schools
November 20, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Chicopee Public Schools computers are hit by a Ryuk ransomware attack.
Port Neches-Groves Independent School District
November 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Port Neches-Groves Independent School District is hit by a ransomware, causing the disruption of all technology connections.
