Highline Public Schools closes schools following cyberattack
Highline Public Schools, a K-12 district in Washington state, has shut down all schools and canceled school activities after its technology systems were compromised in a cyberattack. [...]
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Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform
A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student's iPads and Chromebooks. [...]
Minister apologises for Northern Ireland special education needs data breach
Paul Givan says details of 407 people mistakenly sent out included names, addresses and personal comments The education minister in Northern Ireland has “unreservedly” apologised after the personal details of more than 400 people who had offered to contribute to a review of special education needs were breached. The …
Toronto District School Board hit by a ransomware attack
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed. [...]
New Fog ransomware targets US education sector via breached VPNs
A new ransomware operation named 'Fog' launched in early May 2024, using compromised VPN credentials to breach the networks of educational organizations in the U.S. [...]
Western Sydney University data breach exposed student data
Western Sydney University (WSU) has notified students and academic staff about a data breach after threat actors breached its Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint environment. [...]
Helsinki suffers data breach after hackers exploit unpatched flaw
The City of Helsinki is investigating a data breach in its education division, which it discovered in late April 2024, impacting tens of thousands of students, guardians, and personnel. [...]
University System of Georgia: 800K exposed in 2023 MOVEit attack
The University System of Georgia (USG) is sending data breach notifications to 800,000 individuals whose data was exposed in the 2023 Clop MOVEit attacks. [...]
Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to Google
The Danish data protection authority (Datatilsynet) has issued an injunction regarding student data being funneled to Google through the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace services in the country's schools. [...]
Kansas State University cyberattack disrupts IT network and services
Kansas State University (K-State) announced it is managing a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted certain network systems, including VPN, K-State Today emails, and video services on Canvas and Mediasite. [...]
Memorial University recovers from cyberattack, delays semester start
The Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) continues to deal with the effects of a cyberattack that occurred in late December and postponed the start of classes in one campus. [...]
National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacts 890 schools
U.S. educational nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse has disclosed a data breach affecting 890 schools using its services across the United States. [...]
University of Sydney data breach impacts recent applicants
The University of Sydney (USYD) has announced it has suffered a data breach through a third-party service provider, exposing the personal data of recently applied and enrolled international applicants. [...]
University of Michigan shuts down network after cyberattack
The University of Michigan has taken all of its systems and services offline to deal with a cybersecurity incident, causing a widespread impact on online services the night before classes started. [...]
Hawai'i Community College pays ransomware gang to prevent data leak
The Hawaiʻi Community College has admitted that it paid a ransom to ransomware actors to prevent the leaking of stolen data of approximately 28,000 people. [...]
Colorado State University says data breach impacts students, staff
Colorado State University (CSU) has confirmed that the Clop ransomware operation stole sensitive personal information of current and former students and employees during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks. [...]
Hackers steal data of 45,000 New York City students in MOVEit breach
The New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) says hackers stole documents containing the sensitive personal information of up to 45,000 students from its MOVEit Transfer server. [...]
Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft
Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa's largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. [...]
University of Manchester says hackers ‘likely’ stole data in cyberattack
The University of Manchester warns staff and students that they suffered a cyberattack where threat actors likely stole data from the University's network. [...]
FBI: Bl00dy Ransomware targets education orgs in PaperCut attacks
The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory to warn that the Bl00dy Ransomware gang is now also actively exploiting a PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability to gain initial access to networks. [...]
Ransomware gang hijacks university alert system to issue threats
The Avos ransomware gang hijacked Bluefield University's emergency broadcast system, "RamAlert," to send students and staff SMS texts and email alerts that their data was stolen and would soon be released. [...]
Medusa ransomware claims attack on Open University of Cyprus
The Medusa ransomware gang has claimed a cyberattack on the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), which caused severe disruptions of the organization's operations. [...]
Vice Society ransomware leaks University of Duisburg-Essen’s data
The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the November 2022 cyberattack that forced the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) to reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that's still ongoing. [...]
Iowa’s largest school district cancels classes after cyberattack
Des Moines Public Schools, the largest school district in Iowa, canceled all classes on Tuesday after taking all networked systems offline in response to "unusual activity" detected on its network one day before. [...]
People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ
UK surveillance agency says it has long valued neuro-diverse analysts – including Alan Turing Apprentices on GCHQ’s scheme are four times more likely to have dyslexia than those on other organisations’ programmes, the agency has said, the result of a drive to recruit those whose brains process information differently …
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