Erich Fisher reports that Rochester Community Technical College discovered it had twice made errors in responding to semi-annual public records requests from LexisNexis: A data breach at Rochester Community Technical College was identified and remedied on March 31 after it was discovered that a third-party company had received the birthdates of 5,392 students. No other…
Category: Education Sector
Florida girl, 18, faces 16-year jail for hacking ‘homecoming queen’ contest with mom’s help
There’s an update on a hacking case first reported in March. Unlike high school students who hack to change grades, Emily Grover and her mother stand accused of hacking to rig the homecoming queen election in her favor. Now it appears that she will be charged as an adult to face multiple felony charges.
Ca: B.C. student loan website down after being taken over by hackers
Frances Yap and Kareem Gouda report: The website that B.C. students visit to manage their student loans appears to have been hacked. At around 9 p.m. Sunday people on Twitter reported the landing page for studentaidbc.ca was replaced with a black page with green writing and music playing in the background. Read more on City…
In: Records stolen from Sector 23 govt school
TNN reports: The UT [Union Territory] police have booked an unidentified person for stealing records and damaging a computer system at a government school in Sector 23. Rajiv, principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, said in his police complaint that an unidentified person entered the computer lab of the school, stole files and set admission records…
De: Information for Technische Universität Berlin Members: Several IT Services Currently Unavailable
Technische Universität Berlin (TU) has campuses in Berlin and Egypt, as well as offices in other countries. On April 30, they announced that they had become the victim of what sounds like a ransomware attack: 04/30/2021 An attack on TU Berlin’s Windows environment earlier today, 30 April 2021, has caused the University’s system to go…
UK: Colchester Institute suffers cyber security attack
The education sector has long been recognized as a relatively easy target for criminals. Now Colchester Institute in the U.K. has fallen prey to a cyberattack. The attack was first announced on April 29, but had occurred earlier in the week. In their first statement, posted on their web site, the school wrote As soon…