University of Massachusetts-Amherst
March 28, 2016
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer sends out a massive racist print job on the networks of several US universities, including Princeton University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Brown University, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke College.
Tidewater Community College
March 25, 2016
•[ social, phishing, education ]
Tidewater Community College reports that the tax information of all those employed at the school in 2015 (3000 employees) is taken in a spear phishing scam.
Kentucky State University
March 22, 2016
•[ social, leak, phishing ]
Kentucky State University is the victim of a BEC scam: an employee, responding to an email supposedly from the school's president, sends off the 2015 W-2s for about 1000 employees and students.
Concordia University
March 21, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Concordia University warns the community about a possible computer security breach.
Unknown Organization
March 20, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The website of EC-Council, the professional organization that administers the Certified Ethical Hacker program, is compromised to redirect the visitors to an Angler Exploit Kit landing page, where the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware is injected.
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
March 17, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation notifies past applicants that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers may have been stolen by hackers.
West Bloomfield School District
March 11, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
West Bloomfield School District officials send an email to parents saying a security breach to their network exposed certain student information.
cplusplustutor
March 2, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker hacks cplusplustutor.com and dumps 5,596 usernames and hashed passwords.
Pickens County School District
February 26, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
The Pickens County School District is flooded by a DDoS attack.
University of Central Florida
February 4, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Central Florida (UCF) admits that hackers broke into its systems and stole the personal details of more than 63,000 staff and students. The breach was discovered in early January.
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 1, 2016
•[ hack, malware, education ]
A British judge has ruled against extraditing Christopher Taylor, a Wigan man who is alleged to have hacked hundreds of webcams around the globe, to the United States. Taylor was apprehended after it was discovered that he installed malware on a laptop at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
University of Virginia
January 22, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
The University of Virginia admits to have been targeted by a data breach which has placed the private data of employees at risk. Cyberattackers were able to access a component of the HR system, leading to the exposure of information belonging to approximately 1,400 Academic Division employees.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)
January 8, 2016
•[ leak, education ]
The results of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 for the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad are leaked before being officially released.
University of California, Berkeley
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
University of Central Florida
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, education ]
hacked
Rutgers University
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
Rutgers University is the target of a large-scale DDoS attack that keeps some of its systems down for four days between December 24 and December 28.
Janet
December 7, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
UK publicly-funded academic computer network Janet comes under a persistent DDoS attack today.
Pearson VUE
November 23, 2015
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Technology certification management provider Pearson VUE is the victim of a computer security breach after malware compromises its Credential Manager System.
VTech
November 13, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
In November 2015, hackers extracted more than 4.8 million parents' and 227k children's accounts from VTech's Learning Lodge website. The Hong Kong company produces learning products for children including software sold via the compromised website. The data breach exposed extensive personal details including home addresses, security questions and answers and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes. Furthermore, children's details including names, ages, genders and associations to their parents' records were also exposed.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology
November 12, 2015
•[ financial, malware, education ]
More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have their credit card information stolen by a suspected card reader vulnerability.
