Mike Deak reports: Two Somerset County school districts were the targets of suspected cyber attacks in the past week. Schools in both Hillsborough and Bernards were closed for a day after cyber attacks were suspected. Hillsborough schools were closed on Monday and Bernards schools were closed April 7. Schools in both districts were open the following…
Category: Education Sector
Baltimore County Public Schools takes responsibility for data breach that affected teachers
Tim Tooten reports: More than 2,500 of Baltimore County Public School system employees have had their personal information compromised and the district said it’s their fault. It follows a number of technology issues the school system has been dealing with since November. School officials said they learned about the technology failure in January, but letters…
UK: University of Portsmouth closes campus due to ‘ransomware attack’
Ben Fishwick reports: The University of Portsmouth has closed its campus due to ‘technical disruption’ to its IT network in what is believed to be a ransomware attack. The institution’s buildings are closed until April 19. Students are currently on an Easter break. Read more on The News. A notice on the university’s web site…
310,000 Records Compromised In University Of Colorado Data Breach, Including Social Security Numbers & University Financial Information
Audra Streetman reports: The University of Colorado released new information on Friday about the Accellion data breach that compromised more than 310,000 university records. Officials say the data accessed in the breach includes personally identifiable information, including grades and transcript data, visa and disability status, medical and prescription information and in limited cases, Social Security…
Ch: General trade school (Allgemeine Gewerbeschule) hit by Ryuk ransomware
The following is a translation of a press release from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Education Department that appears at https://www.bs.ch/nm/2021-allgemeine-gewerbeschule-ags-wird-ziel-eines-professionellen-hackerangriffs-ed.html: All of the school’s servers are currently unavailable, so no data can be accessed. To ensure that school starts on Monday, a temporary WLAN network was activated, the data center isolated and the host systems shut…
Ransomware attack forces Haverhill Schools to cancel classes
Erin Tiernan reports: At a time when a shift to remote learning has all but made snow days obsolete, Haverhill Public Schools students will be getting one in April after a ransomware attack forced administrators to cancel school on Thursday. The Haverhill Public School District said its IT department noticed early Wednesday morning that something…