The Harvard Crimson
May 25, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
The website of Harvard's 144-year-old newspaper is defaced and posts fake stories and an altered picture of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who was visiting the institution).
Salem State University Twitter Account
May 20, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Salem State University officials apologize after several racist tweets (against Black Lives Matter) were sent out when the school's Twitter account was hacked (@SalemState).
Blackburn High School
May 19, 2017
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
Police investigate a major privacy breach at Blackburn High School, which saw the personal information of families, including their phone numbers, addresses and Medicare details, published online.
University of California Los Angeles
May 18, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
UCLA reports a cyberattack against a Summer Sessions & International Education Office server that contains personal information provided by students. The attack happened on May 18 and affects potentially up to 32,000 students.
National University of Singapore (NUS)
May 12, 2017
•[ espionage, education ]
Reports emerge that two Singapore universities suffered APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks last month, with the attackers specifically targeting government and research data.
Edmodo
May 11, 2017
•[ leak, hack, education ]
In May 2017, the education platform Edmodo was hacked resulting in the exposure of 77 million records comprised of over 43 million unique customer email addresses. The data was consequently published to a popular hacking forum and made freely available. The records in the breach included usernames, email addresses and bcrypt hashes of passwords.
Confluence Charter Schools
May 6, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The network servers for Confluence Charter Schools are hacked, but school leadership say there is no evidence that student or employee data have been compromised.
Wellington's Victoria University
May 2, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Students and staff of Wellington's Victoria University have been warned their usernames and passwords may have been compromised following a data breach following an unauthorised access to the university's IT systems.
Pekin Community High School
April 30, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack takes down Pekin Community High School.
Greenwood County School District 50
April 29, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
About 3,300 are affected by a security breach after the school discovers that an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees' emails as well as current and former employees' payroll accounts in January and February.
North Mundham Primary in Chichester
April 23, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Police are investigating after "malicious" messages are left on a school website by Turkish nationalists in an apparent hacking attempt.
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
April 21, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Cleveland Metropolitan School District discloses a phishing-related incident.
Westminster College
April 17, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Westminster College in Missouri reveals the details of a breach discovered on March 26 after a phishing scam duped a staffer into sending off W-2 statements.
AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance)
April 12, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
Data relating to 64,000 current and former examiners stored on some of AQA's online systems are stolen by attackers, including examiners' name, address, personal phone numbers, and passwords.
University of Louisville
April 7, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
Tax information for dozens of University of Louisville employees is compromised after a hack of the online system the university uses to give employees access to tax documents.
Queensland School Photography
March 9, 2017
•[ financial, education ]
Queensland School Photography emails students' parents to notify that payment card information has been compromised.
University of Idaho
March 6, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after a phishing incident.
Kennesaw State University
March 1, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of a Kennesaw State University server.
St. Mary's Catholic Academy
February 26, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Hackers break into CCTV systems of at least four British schools and stream footage of pupils live on the internet. St. Mary's Catholic Academy and Christ The King Academy Primary School are two fo the victims.
South Washington County School District
February 22, 2017
•[ hack, education ]
The South Washington County school district tightens security after a high school student hacks into the district's server and takes names, Social Security numbers and some addresses.
