We End Violence
September 10, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
California-based violence prevention education organization We End Violence discovers a potential intrusion into its Agent of Change application server that could have exposed personal information, and, so far, 79,000 California State University students have been impacted.
Israeli Ministry of Education
September 8, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The pro-Palestinian hacking group AnonGhost defaces a sub-domain of the Israeli ministry of education (gadol.edu.gov.il).
California State University
September 6, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
California State University officials reveal a breach in an East Bay web server used to store personal employee information. The security breach occurred on Aug. 23, 2013 and was discovered Aug. 11 of this year.
Stanford University
August 28, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
Sahoo defaces a subdomain of Stanford (web.stanford.edu).
Cumberland Valley School District
August 22, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
A hacker gains access to the Cumberland Valley School District computer network, forcing the district to notify local police and FBI.
University of Louisiana at Monroe
August 21, 2014
•[ social, phishing, education ]
An employee of the University of Louisiana at Monroe falls victim of a phishing attempt, possibly compromising the personal information of students who graduated from ULM in fall 2013, and spring 2014.
Penn State College of Medicine
July 10, 2014
•[ leak, malware, education ]
1176 Penn State College of Medicine alumni's Social Security numbers might have been compromised after malware was found on a university computer.
Butler University
June 30, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
Personal and financial information of some 163,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and past applicants of Indianapolis-based Butler University have been stolen following a hack of the university's computer network.
University of California Washington Center
June 26, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) notifies alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. The attack targeted UCDC's cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com.
INVALSI
June 15, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
An unknown hacker illegitimately accesses the systems of INVALSI, the public Italian System for School Assessment. This happens few days before the official start of the assessments affecting 600,000 students.
American Institutes for Research
May 21, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
About 6,500 current and former employees of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to one of the organization's servers.
University of Nebraska Omaha
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
School officials at University of Nebraska Omaha (unomaha.edu) announce to investigate an unauthorized access to an administrative server within campus security.
University of California Irvine
May 15, 2014
•[ hack, malware, education ]
More than 1,800 University of California (UC), Irvine, students are notified that they may have had personal information compromised after keylogger malware was discovered on three Student Health Center (SHC) computers for about six weeks.
Dr. Micharl M. Krop Senior High School
May 2, 2014
•[ insider, education ]
An 18-year old student appears before a judge after he was arrested for allegedly changing grades for students in Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School.
University of North Carolina Wilmington
May 2, 2014
•[ hack, misconfiguration, education ]
An undisclosed number of employees, graduate students and adjunct instructors with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (uncw.edu) may have had personal information compromised after unauthorized access was gained to an applications server.
University of Virginia
April 21, 2014
•[ leak, education ]
University of Virginia (1 million files leaked).
knowledgeicon
April 14, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
In name of OpKashmir an unknown hacker hacks knowledgeicon.com and dumps 911 email addresses and other personal data.
St. Aldhelm's Academy
April 8, 2014
•[ financial, social, phishing ]
Members of the finance staff at the UK's St. Aldhelm's Academy were fooled in July of 2013 by an e-mail that appeared to come from the school's bank. As a consequence, more than 1 million ($1.7 million) was stolen.
Kansas Interactive Testing Engine
April 4, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, education ]
A DDoS attack takes down the Kansas Interactive Testing Engine (KITE, ksassessments.org), Kansas' new online student testing system.
JSTOR
April 2, 2014
•[ hack, education ]
Digital library JSTOR notifies approximately 800 users that their personal information may be at risk after their MyJSTOR accounts were accessed by an unauthorized third party.
