Carmel Unified School District
March 13, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Carmel Unified School District notifies employees that a successful phishing attack had gained access to an employee's email account containing sensitive documents.
Sir John Colfox Academy
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Sir John Colfox Academy is the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypts some files, causing to lose some students' GCSE coursework.
Grinnell College
March 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, education ]
Students at three elite colleges Hamilton, Grinnell, and Oberlin are delivered ransom notes and informed by the hackers that they have gained access to their students' application files.
Pennsylvania State University
March 5, 2019
•[ espionage, hack, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is Pennsylvania State University.
University of Hawaii
March 5, 2019
•[ espionage, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is the University of Hawaii.
University of Washington
March 5, 2019
•[ espionage, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is the University of Washington.
Duke University
March 5, 2019
•[ espionage, hack, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is Duke University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 5, 2019
•[ hack, espionage, education ]
Chinese hackers targeted twenty-seven universities in the United States, Canada, and Southeast Asia as part of a scheme to steal research about maritime technology under development for military use. Among the victimis is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Florida Keys Community College
February 27, 2019
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Florida Keys Community College discovers that it became the target of a phishing email campaign that compromised several employee email account credentials back in October 2018.
Aurora City Schools
February 26, 2019
•[ financial, education ]
Aurora City Schools investigates a 'sophisticated' financial cyber-security breach.
GameSalad
February 24, 2019
•[ hack, education ]
In February 2019, the education and game creation website Game Salad suffered a data breach. The incident impacted 1.5M accounts and exposed email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and passwords stored as SHA-256 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Pellissippi State Community College
February 4, 2019
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
More than 200 current and former students of Pellissippi State Community College could be in danger of identity theft because an unauthorized user had access to their personal information.
Mount Zion School District
February 4, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Mount Zion School District is hit by a ransomware.
Crosby Independent School District
February 4, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Crosby ISD officials notified parents and staff that a ransomware virus has infiltrated the school district's IT system.
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.
