Taos Municipal Schools District
March 21, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Taos Municipal Schools District struggles to recover from a ransomware attack occurred three weeks ago.
Lynn Public Schools
March 20, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Lynn Public Schools shut down internet after a computer virus.
Haylands Primary School
March 18, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Haylands Primary School in Ryde become aware of a malware virus affecting their IT systems. Upon investigation they realize there had been unauthorised log-ins to the school server.
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.
