Proctor School District
December 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Proctor school district is hit by ransomware.
Osaka University
December 13, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Osaka University says that personal data of around 80,000 students, graduates, staff, former workers and others may have been stolen by hackers.
Jerome School District
December 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Jerome School District falls victim to ransomware.
Clarion University
December 7, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Clarion University employees are notified after two employees fall victim of a phishing attack.
Warwick Rowers
December 5, 2017
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The website of a naked charity calendar featuring male rowers at Warwick University is taken down by a DDoS attack after having allegedly offended Russia's "gay propaganda" laws.
Tenafly High School
December 1, 2017
•[ insider, misconfiguration, education ]
Tenafly High School informs parents that a student has gained access to its internal IT systems, changed grades to improve his GPA, and sent out college applications immediately after.
Xinmin Secondary School
November 18, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
Xinmin Secondary School is discovered to have been breached when names and identity card numbers of its students have been leaked on pastebin.
J. Sterling Morton school district
November 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
An in-development home made ransomware named J. Sterling Ransomware is discovered. This ransomware strain targets the high school students of the J. Sterling Morton school district in Cicero, Illinois by pretending to be a student survey.
SchoolDesk
November 6, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers from Team System Dz deface hundreds of websites across the US to post pro-ISIS messages, images of Saddam Hussein and a recruitment video. SchoolDesk, the Atlanta, Georgia-based web hosting company servicing these sites, confirmed the attack.
San Ysidro School District
September 29, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Malware infects the San Ysidro School District, deleting emails and forcing the district to temporarily shut down part of its systems.
Columbia Falls High School
September 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, education ]
The Dark Overlord sends a threatening ransom note to the Columbia Falls (Montana) school district forcing officials to shutter its schools to ensure the safety of the students.
The Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO)
September 19, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Irish National Teachers Organisation warns users of its online learning portal that their personal data may have been compromised following the hacking of the website. Around 30,000 users details were potentially compromised by the hack.
West Australian TAFE
September 5, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
An attacker infiltrates the systems of a West Australian TAFE on August 28 and September 5 and accesses the sensitive personal details of staff and more than 13,000 students.
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School
August 29, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The Young Illustrator Award site administered by Meridian Secondary School is taken down after being hacked.
MacEwan University
August 23, 2017
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
MacEwan University staffers are tricked into transferring $11.8 million into scammers' bank accounts. The majority of the money, $11.4 million, has been traced to bank accounts in Montreal and Hong Kong.
Newcastle University
July 20, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Newcastle University issues an alert, warning prospective students to be careful when seeking to apply and pay online for courses, after discovering the existence of a sophisticated phishing scam.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
June 18, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
It looks like two months before the U.S. Presidential Elections. MoRo, a group of hackers from Morocco allegedly tried to hack the US voting systems. In an attempt, they hacked four school districts from Florida, including the Miami-Dade School District.
Ulster University
June 16, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Ulster University is also hit by ransomware.
University College London
June 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
University College London is hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brings down its shared drives and student management system. The attack also leads to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.
University of Alaska
June 1, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing scam in December 2016 resulted in a data breach at the University of Alaska, affecting around 25,000 students, staff and faculty members.
