In September, 2020 Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia was hit with Maze ransomware.The attack was announced on Maze’s dedicated leak site in early September, and after multiple queries by this site, FCPS issued a statement confirming that they had been attacked. One month later, the threat actors started dumping some data on their leak…
Category: Education Sector
NL: Secondary school in Lochem pays ransom after cyber attack criminals
NOS reports: Staring College, with offices in Lochem and Borculo, has paid ransom to cyber criminals who locked files. School board member Carlien Krist-Spit tells Omroep Gelderland that payment has been made to prevent education from being given for a longer period of time. The school noted the attack on Tuesday. A lot of data suddenly turned out to…
GA: Metro school district working on cybersecurity after reports of hacking
Mike Petchenik reports: The DeKalb County School District is making changes to student computer account passwords after reports of hacking. One mother told Channel 2′s Mike Petchenik that when she got a call from her daughter’s assistant principal accusing her 10-year-old daughter of sending inappropriate messages to a teacher, she knew something wasn’t right. […] She contacted…
Cheating Companies Hacked Websites at MIT, Stanford, Columbia And More Than 100 Other Schools
Derek Newton reports: Jim Ridolfo at the University of Kentucky and William Hart-Davidson at Michigan State University have found that more than 100 websites of American colleges have been hacked or otherwise compromised by essay mills, the contract cheating providers that improperly sell academic work to students. Read more on Forbes.
Oxford University Covid-19 laboratory hacked by cyber gang
Robert Mendick reports: An Oxford University biology laboratory researching Covid-19 has been hacked by a cyber gang amid fears they are trying to sell secrets to the highest bidder. The cyber attack is now being investigated by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the cyber security arm of GCHQ. The intelligence agency confirmed it was “aware of an…
Police investigate racist hack that disrupted Ben Franklin High students’ virtual field trip
KYW reports: Police and the School District of Philadelphia are investigating after a virtual field trip by students at Ben Franklin High School was hacked. The district said three dozen students were subjected to suggestive images and inappropriate language. Read more on Radio.com.