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.
Manatee County School District
February 3, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Manatee County School District is the victim of a phishing scam that compromises the information from almost 8,000 employees.
DataCamp
January 30, 2017
•[ leak, education ]
In December 2018, the data science website DataCamp suffered a data breach of records dating back to January 2017. The incident exposed 760k unique email and IP addresses along with names and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it to be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
Odessa School District
January 26, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The Odessa School District is hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Argyle school district
January 25, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Argyle school district warns its workers that their W-2 tax forms were lost in a phishing attack.
Tipton County Schools
January 23, 2017
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tipton County Schools are hit by a phishing scam aimed to steal employees' personal W-2 forms.
Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center
January 21, 2017
•[ leak, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a security breach that could put the personal information of up to 4,611 clients of the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Center in jeopardy.
