The Aspen Institute Germany
January 31, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Hackers'sent'spoof e-mails to people who work with the Aspen Institute Germany in an attempt to trick them into handing over information, such as passwords.
Centinela Valley Union High School District
January 31, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Centinela Valley Union High School District notifies employees of a W-2 phishing incident.
Youthmanual
January 31, 2019
•[ leak, education ]
In January 2019, the Indonesian college and career platform Youthmanual suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1M records of data. The breached included 938k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, genders, dates and places of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes.
Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
January 25, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
A total of 1,164,540 records, belonging to students at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) between 2000 and 2018 are leaked online. According to sources, the data happened between February and March 2018.
Newcastle's Royal Grammar School
January 20, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Newcastle's Royal Grammar School warns parents of a "sophisticated attack" carried out via fraudulent emails sent from school accounts, offering a 25% discount on fees for paying quickly via Bitcoin.
Caddo Parish School System
January 8, 2019
•[ financial, phishing, education ]
The Caddo Parish School System is scammed out of nearly $1 million in tax payer money after a phishing attack.
Bridgeport School District
January 8, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Bridgeport, Connecticut, School District is hit with a ransomware
Wichita State University
January 4, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
At least three employees of Wichita State University do not receive their paychecks after they fall victim of an e-mail phishing scheme.
Australian National University
January 1, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Universiti Teknologi MARA
January 1, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
College of Eastern Idaho
December 28, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
College of Eastern Idaho notifies a security incident discovered on September 5, 2018, when suspicious email activity was detected within an employee's email account.
Westminster College
December 28, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah notifies people after eleven of their employees fell prey to phishing attacks.
San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD)
December 21, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) reveals that PII of more than a half million students and staff were compromised as the result of a phishing attack that may have occurred as early as January 2018.
Ajarn
December 13, 2018
•[ leak, education ]
In September 2021, the Thai-based English language teaching website Ajarn discovered they'd been the victim of a data breach dating back to December 2018. The breach was self-submitted to HIBP and included 266k email addresses, names, genders, phone numbers and other personal information. Hashed passwords were also impacted in the breach.
San Francisco State University
December 4, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Dozens of San Francisco State University student accounts are hacked in a phishing attack.
Window to the World Communications
December 1, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Investigations by a law firm and forensic accounting firm determined that emails and personal information of approximately 40 staffers were hacked between December 2018 and August 2020.
Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools (JLAS)
November 20, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools (JLAS) falls victim to a ransomware attack.
East Tennessee State University
November 19, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Two employees at East Tennessee State University fall for an email phishing scam and pave the way for a breach at the school.
Midlands State University
November 12, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Midlands State University is forced to postpone its Student Representative Council Elections after hackers breach the security system.
Chesapeake Public Schools
November 9, 2018
•[ social, malware, education ]
A malware received via phishing emails take down the systems of Chesapeake Public Schools.
