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.
Victoria Independent School District
April 10, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Victoria independent School District notifies employees that some email accounts were inappropriately accessed between July and October 2017. Some of the emails in those accounts contained employees' personal information.
Oakton High School
April 4, 2018
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
A police investigation reveals that hackers attempted to change grades at Oakton High School, using an attack carried on via a malicious email.
Quebec teachers
April 1, 2018
•[ hack, education ]
Three Montrealers have been arrested in connection with a 2018 data breach that exposed the information of 360,000 current and former teachers in Quebec.
Nampa School District
March 15, 2018
•[ leak, education ]
The Nampa School District informed its employees of a potential security issue involving personally identifiable information of about 3,983 of its current and past employees.
Mississippi Valley State University
March 10, 2018
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Mississippi Valley State University's campus was temporary without internet service this week after university officials said the school was hit by a SamSam ransomware attack.
Florida Virtual Learning School (FVLS)
March 9, 2018
•[ leak, education ]
Florida Virtual Learning School notifies 368,000 current and former students, after an individual with the moniker $2a$45 uploads information of 35,000 students on a forum. Leon County Schools is among the affected organizations.
