Penn-Harris-Madison School
November 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Penn-Harris-Madison School is hit by a ransomware attack.
Pierson High School
November 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Sag Harbor's Pierson High School is hit by a ransomware attack.
Lincoln County School District
November 4, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Lincoln County School District is hit by a ransomware attack
Vedantu
November 1, 2019
•[ leak, education ]
The Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users.
Universarium
November 1, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In approximately November 2019, the Russian "Remote preparatory faculty for IT specialties" Universarium suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 565k email addresses and passwords in plain text. Universarium did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact over a period of many weeks. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Watertown School District
October 31, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Watertown School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
Las Cruces Public Schools
October 29, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack hits Las Cruces Public Schools and forces the district to shut down the entire computer system to contain the infection.
San Bernardino City Unified School District
October 20, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The San Bernardino City Unified School District is knocked offline by a ransomware attack.
Universiti Malaya
October 17, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
The Universiti Malaya E-Pay Cashless Payment and Records portal is hacked but no data is compromised apparently.
Sunapee New Hampshire School District
October 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Sunapee New Hampshire School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
South Knox School Corporation
October 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
South Knox School Corporation is hit by a ransomware.
Boston University
October 10, 2019
•[ leak, education ]
Over 1,000 Boston University students are forced to change their account passwords after the servers are flooded with spam emails from student accounts. The spam is believed to be a result of a 2018 breach of the educational site Chegg.
Fairfield County High School
October 10, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Attackers target students at a Fairfield County High School in a phishing scheme.
Hassan Nafaa
October 3, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, education ]
The Egyptian government installed mobile apps on targets' phones to extract files, track their locations, and identify contacts. One of the targets is Hassan Nafaa, a political scientist at Cairo University.
Tukwila School District
October 2, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Tukwila School District is the victim of a "phishing scam".
Luzerne County
October 1, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A school district in Luzerne County confirms it was the victim of a ransomware attack that locked up their computers for weeks.
Northshore School District
September 25, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Northshore School District in Washington is hit by a ransomware attack.
Mobile County Public Schools
September 24, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Mobile County Public Schools are impacted by a ransomware attack.
Guthrie Public Schools
September 24, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Guthrie Public Schools are hit by a ransomware attack.
Kent State University
September 17, 2019
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Kent State University announces over 3,000 student emails has been hacked the week before, as a result of credential harvesting.
