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.
Jewish Free School
November 11, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Tunisian Fallaga Team defaces the website of Europe's largest Jewish school, JFS, posting a message that calls for an end to Islamophobia and aggression against Muslims.
TAFE Queensland
November 10, 2015
•[ leak, education ]
TAFE Queensland has experienced a breach that has seen the personal details of thousands of the state's TAFE students exposed.
Anandamohan College
October 31, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
A Pakistani hacker dubbed Virushacker defaces several colleges across Kolkata including: Mohan College, Maharaja Manindra College, and Anandamohan College.
Wichita Public Schools
October 26, 2015
•[ hack, education ]
The Wichita, Kansas public school system is investigating a possible hacking attempt on one of its networks that took place on Oct. 23.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
October 16, 2015
•[ espionage, education ]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution declares to have suffered a "sophisticated, targeted attack" that allegedly originated from China. The breach turns out to have started back in February 2013.
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
October 14, 2015
•[ hack, leak, education ]
HTGzSecurity hacks ricsasia.org (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and dumps 3,410 records.
