St. Louis Public Library
January 20, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
St. Louis Public Library is hit by a ransomware attack. Attackers demand $35,000 worth in Bitcoin.
Dracut Public Schools
January 15, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
Current and former employees' personal information, including SSN, is acquired by a hacker after an employee falls for what the district describes as a "sophisticated phishing scheme."
Kanawha County Schools
January 11, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Kanawha County Schools tells that their internal documents have been restored after a ransomware attack.
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC)
January 10, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) is forced to pay $28,000 in bitcoin after cybercriminals successfully infected its computer networks, email systems and voicemail lines with ransomware.
Princeton University
January 7, 2017
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Princeton University is one of the 27,000 victims that have their data wiped by attackers leveraging a vulnerable MongoDB.
University of Alberta
January 5, 2017
•[ hack, malware, education ]
The University of Alberta discloses the details of a malware attack, occurring late last year, that involved 300 computers and put over 3,000 students at risk.
Northside Independent School District
January 4, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, education ]
The Northside Independent School District sends letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk after several employees' email accounts have been compromised.
Hub4Tech
January 1, 2017
•[ leak, sqlinjection, education ]
On an unknown date in approximately 2017, the Indian training and assessment service known as Hub4Tech suffered a data breach via a SQL injection attack. The incident exposed almost 37k unique email addresses and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. No response was received from Hub4Tech when contacted about the incident.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
December 20, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL says that an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred sometime in the last two years.
Unknown Organization
December 19, 2016
•[ hack, leak, education ]
Cryptolulz666 hacks the database of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the second of the country and leaks a part of the 12,000 users.
Los Angeles County
December 18, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Kelvin Onaghinor, a Nigerian national is charged in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails that might have exposed personal data from more than 750,000 people who had business with county departments.
Frederick County Public Schools
December 14, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
Data on about 1,000 former students in Frederick County Public Schools in Maryland was likely exposed in a data breach that occurred prior to 2010 but which was only discovered in September of this year.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
December 6, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School reveals that a database containing Social Security numbers and name pairs od 1,213 Law School applicants for 2005-'06 was hacked last month.
Appalachian State University
December 3, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
A group called AppState Leaks releases the data of 1,768 student from Appalachian State University.
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.
