It seems I missed an announcement that another North Carolina community college got hit with ransomware (or is this the mysterious listing I saw briefly on a dedicated leak site but it was gone before I could note the name and details?). In any event, on August 24, Piedmont Community College (PCC) in North Carolina…
Category: Education Sector
MO: Fort Zumwalt investigates data breach involving student
Karis K. Gamble reports: The Fort Zumwalt School District investigated a data breach involving a student. According to Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent Laura Wagner, a student accessed one of the district’s servers without authorization. Read more on FOX2. The student, whose grade and school were not disclosed, reportedly told the district that they had…
Picture of man’s genitalia shows up on screen during virtual class for students in Virginia Beach
All Weatherton reports: Virginia Beach City Public Schools said it’s investigating after someone hacked into a Zoom classroom filled with 5th graders and showed a picture of a man’s body parts on the screen. The students typically go to Windsor Oaks Elementary School but are learning virtually due to coronavirus. The incident happened on Friday…
Mount Diablo Unified District responds to SchoolMessenger leak
On September 21, the Mount Diablo Unified District notified parents of a breach involving the SchoolMessenger app by Intrado. Their letter explains that on September 14, 2020, the district was informed that “when certain parents were using the SchoolMessenger mobile application, they were able to view a list of roughly thirty (30) unique names, emails,…
Update: Has Guilford Technical Community College notified more than 43,000 students of data breach?
On September 19, DataBreaches.net reported that Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) in North Carolina had apparently become a ransomware victim of DoppelPaymer on September 13. But on October 6, GTCC was no longer listed on the threat actors’ dedicated leak site. The removal of a victim’s name often indicates that the victim had a change…
Threat actors dump some student data from Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
On October 12, WXYZ reported that Walled Lake Consolidated Schools in Michigan had suffered an attack that impacted their systems: The superintendent sent an email out Sunday night saying email cannot be sent or received, and internet access, along with access to network drives, is down. Skyward Family Access, where parents can see their child’s…