On November 26, DataBreaches.net reported that two more k-12 districts appeared to have been attacked by ransomware threat actors. One was Spring ISD in Houston, Texas, but DataBreaches.net did not name the other district at the time as they had not confirmed the breach. DataBreaches.net has now received a statement from the Gardiner Public Schools…
Category: Education Sector
Huntsville City Schools hit by ransomware attack
WAAY31 reports: Huntsville City Schools is canceling classes on Tuesday due to a ransomware threat. The district announced earlier Monday that it was closing all schools and campuses for the remainder of the day “due to a potential cybersecurity threat.” It said “students, families, and faculty and staff members should shut down their district-issued devices and…
Three Montrealers arrested after Quebec teachers’ personal information stolen
Amy Luft reports: Quebec provincial police have arrested three Montreal men they say are behind a widespread identity theft operation that stole personal information from scores of Quebec teachers and education workers. The three men were arrested on Friday: Frédéric Lapointe, 41, Rath Pak, 41, and Jimmy Saintelien, 39. In February, Quebec’s education minister revealed…
Two more k-12 school districts allegedly hit by ransomware threat actors
Spring Independent School District in Houston, Texas is closed for Thanksgiving week, but I wonder if any of their staff are working anyway in response to a claimed ransomware attack by Egregor threat actors. There is no date on Egregor’s site to show when they claim to have locked up the district’s files. And they…
Ransomware attack hits Baltimore County Public Schools
Ethan McLeod reports: Baltimore County schools are out one day early during the holiday week after the system’s networks were struck by ransomware. The school system had initially characterized the disruption as “issues with our network” Wednesday morning, but said in a follow-up post on social media that it was attributable to a ransomware attack…
Illinois Valley Community College sends letter warning of data breach
Michael Urbanec reports: Illinois Valley Community College has sent out more than 160,000 letters to current and former students, faculty and applicants warning them that their data may have been compromised in connection with a data breach back in April. This attack was originally noted on this site in April, but this site had followed…