Australian National University
July 6, 2018
•[ hack, espionage, education ]
China-based hackers have successfully infiltrated the IT systems at the Australian National University, potentially compromising the home of Australia's leading national security college and key defence research projects.
Notre Dame de Namur University
June 30, 2018
•[ financial, phishing, education ]
Notre Dame de Namur University notifies some financial aid applicants that their information may have been compromised when an employee fell prey to a phishing attack on April 23, 2018.
Algonquin College
June 29, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
The Algonquin College publishes a note indicating that the education community is still not sure how many current and former students and employees could be affected by a cyber attack that happened weeks earlier.
South Eastern Regional College (SERC)
June 28, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Personal information of hundreds of staff at the South Eastern Regional College is compromised after detecting suspicious email activity as the consequence of a hack.
Middletown school district
June 28, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Middletown School District is hit by a ransomware.
Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET)
June 27, 2018
•[ financial, education ]
Unauthorized individuals gain access to 21 accounts of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) and make 44 withdrawals, for a total of $1,416,635, of which, $442,540 is recovered or stopped.
Manitowoc County
June 22, 2018
•[ leak, phishing, education ]
Manitowoc County officials release more information about a data breach of a Manitowoc County email account in January, when an employee falls victim of a phishing attack.
Harare Institute of Technology
May 28, 2018
•[ leak, education ]
A database from the Harare Institute of Technology is leaked, containing 3,500 users.
University of Vermont
May 23, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
University of Vermont officials say they have no reason to believe the personal information of 37,000 current and former faculty, staff and students fell into the wrong hands following an intrusion of the school's computer systems.
Bloomfield Hills High School
May 19, 2018
•[ hack, insider, education ]
Two students from Bloomfield Hills High School are the main suspects of a recent hack discovered at the school. The two broke into the school's MISTAR Student Information System portal where they changed grades, attendance records, and attempted to refund lunch purchases.
University of Buffalo
May 18, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
University of Buffalo confirms to be investigating and responding to a breach of 2,690 UBITName accounts.
Bemus Point School District
May 11, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Bemus Point School District Superintendent reveals that some students in the district might have been compromised amid the breach of Maia Learning by a competitor.
Roseburg Public Schools
May 7, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack targets Roseburg Public Schools, blocking access to the district's email, website and software.
W.S. Neal High School
May 4, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
While finalizing end-year school rankings, W.S. Neal High School realizes that someone has been changing grades since 2016.
Northwest University
May 4, 2018
•[ financial, hack, education ]
The email account of the Northwest University's CFO is hacked. As a consequence $60,000 are stolen.
Fredericksburg School System
May 2, 2018
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A Fredericksburg school system employee falls for phishing attack.
Chegg
April 28, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. A small number of records also contained physical address or phone number. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "JimScott.Sec@protonmail.com".
Leominster Schools District
April 27, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Leominster Schools District pays $10,000 worth of Bitcoins ransom following a cyberattack on their system.
Questar
April 18, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Annual tests in several states are delayed by what appears to be a suspected hack to Questar, a K12 assessment solutions provider.
Irvington School District
April 16, 2018
•[ leak, email, education ]
Partial social security numbers of more than 1,200 employees at Irvington schools are distributed via email to an unknown number of recipients by an unidentified attacker.
