Erasmus University
November 30, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The Erasmus University is the victim of a breach affecting 270,000 students, whose personal information is compromised.
The Carleton University
November 29, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The computers of the Carleton University are paralyzed by a ransomware attack.
Pace University
November 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An Arizona man is arrested on charges that he hacked into over 1,000 email accounts for students and others at two universities, including Pace University in New York, and tried to do the same at 75 other higher-education institutions.
University of Central Florida
October 1, 2016
•[ financial, malware, education ]
A malware infection is to blame for a payment card data breach affecting at least 230 University of Central Florida students.
San Francisco Exploratorium Museum
September 6, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
The San Francisco Exploratorium Museum admits to have fallen victim to a Spear Phishing Attack.
MDPI
August 30, 2016
•[ leak, misconfiguration, education ]
In August 2016, the Swiss scholarly open access publisher known as MDPI had 17.5GB of data obtained from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data contained email exchanges between MDPI and their authors and reviewers which included 845k unique email addresses. MDPI have confirmed that the system has since been protected and that no data of a sensitive nature was impacted. As such, they concluded that notification to their subscribers was not necessary due to the fact that all their authors and reviewers are available online on their website.
University of Regina
June 30, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Three University of Regina computers are hacked. Names, student and employee numbers, as well as social insurance numbers, may have been accessed.
Unknown Organization
June 23, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Hackers hit the University of Cambridge's Cambridge Schools Classics Project website, exposing the email addresses and cleartext passwords of over 1,500 students and employees.
North Carolina State University
June 3, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals.
Arkansas Library Association
May 26, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) leaks details of 800 library workers from the Arkansas Library Association (ALA).
University of Limpopo
May 13, 2016
•[ hack, leak, education ]
New World Hackers (NWH), one of the hacking crews participating in the Anonymous #OpAfrica campaign, leak data obtained after hacking and then defacing the website of the University of Limpopo from the town of Polokwane, South Africa.
Unknown Organization
May 10, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The Utkal University portal is taken down after it is defaced.
Solano Community College
April 28, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Solano Community College is hit with a spearphishing attack leading to the W-2 information for about 1,200 staffers being compromised.
Archdiocese of Denver
April 21, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Archdiocese of Denver notifies 18,000 individuals to have discovered a breach happened on November 2015 after an unauthorized person accessed an Archdiocese of Denver database maintained by a third-party.
Ain Shams University
April 19, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks the Staff Management Portal of the Ain Shams University (staff.asu.edu.eg) and dumps 2,280 records.
Janet
April 15, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
British government-funded educational network Janet is hit by a DDoS.
Unknown Organization
April 13, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Anonymous takes down the Dalhousie University website protesting a 2015 rape case, demanding punishment for the culprits.
Olympia School District
April 13, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
A phishing attack compromises the identities of more than 2,100 employees of Olympia School DIstrict.
University of Liverpool
April 5, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
A University of Liverpool database of 6,500 staff is posted on dark web forum. Leaked data includes: name, address and work email addresses.
Stanford University
April 4, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Unknown hackers infiltrate the systems of the systems of W-2Express, a third party vendor, and download the W-2 forms of 3,500 Stanford University employees.
