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.
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.
