Morehouse Parish School District
July 24, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Morehouse Parish School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
Sabine Parish School District
July 24, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Sabine Parish School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
Tennessee Higher Education Commission
July 23, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission investigates a possible data breach of a 3rd party vendor, that potentially has exposed personal information of thousands of students.
University of Hawaii
July 23, 2019
•[ education, hack, misconfiguration ]
Personal information for as many as 70,000 public school students may have been compromised after Graduation Alliance, a University of Hawaii vendor, detected "suspicious" unauthorized access to one of its servers.
Butler County Federated Library System
July 21, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Butler County Federated Library System is hit by a ransomware attack.
Florien High School
July 20, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Florien High School is hit by a ransomware attack.
Midlands Technical College
July 19, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Cyber criminals hit Midlands Technical College computers with a malware.
Metropolitan Police's Twitter account
July 19, 2019
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account is hit by hackers who post a series of bizarre messages. The breach is due to the compromise of the MyNewsDesk platform.
62 universities
July 17, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Hackers target the systems of 62 colleges and universities by exploiting a vulnerability in third-party software used by the universities.
University of Alabama
July 16, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Alabama discovers a 2009 computer security incident involving a server for Brewer-Porch Children's Center. The server was accessed by outside hackers who got hold of 1,400 former clients, employees and medical providers.
Lyon County School District
July 15, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Lyon County School District is hit by a ransomware attack.
Northwest Indian College
July 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Northwest Indian College is hit by a Ryuk ransomware attack.
Monroe College
July 10, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Monroe College is hit by a ransomware attack.
KHSU
July 10, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
KHSU the radio of Humboldt State University, is hit by a ransomware attack.
Syracuse City School
July 9, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Syracuse City School is hit by ransomware.
Vedantu
July 8, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted about the incident, Vedantu advised that they were aware of the breach and were in the process of informing their customers.
School District No. 5 Southeast Kootenay
June 22, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
School District No. 5 Southeast Kootenay discloses an incident occurred on January 23 in which computers at the School Board Office and the Fernie Learning Centre were infected with the Emotet Virus.
Geraldton Catholic School
June 19, 2019
•[ financial, education ]
Geraldton Catholic School confirms it was the victim of a cyber attack, saying bank account and credit card information may have been stolen, including signatures scanned when parents paid school fees.
Australian Catholic University (ACU)
June 17, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Australian Catholic University (ACU) reveals that a data breach occurred on its systems as a result of a phishing attack discovered on May 22.
Missouri Southern State University (MSSU)
June 15, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) states that it was alerted of a possible cyber attack triggered by a phishing email on January 9. The phishing attack made several victims among the university's employees.
