Gillian Graham reports: The Secret Service is investigating a data breach that exposed the financial information of MSAD 6 [Maine School Administrative District 6] employees. One of the district’s servers was hacked last week and a piece of ransomware was installed, according to school officials. The breach happened on Nov. 30 and was discovered Dec. 2…
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IL Ransomware attack hits Sycamore School District 427
Matthew N. Wells reports: Visitors to the Sycamore School District 427 website Tuesday were greeted with a pop-up message saying the district had been the victim of a ransomware attack. The message from D-427 Superintendent Kathy Countryman addressed the issue on the district’s website. Read more on Daily Chronicle. The name struck me as familiar,…
Significant malware attack hits Waterloo Catholic District School Board Social Sharing
Paula Duhatschek reports: The Waterloo Catholic District School Board was in the midst of responding to a significant malware incident on Wednesday, according to chief managing officer John Shewchuk. Shewchuk said the board learned of the attack early on Sunday. Read more on CBC News.
FL: Baker Co. student could face felony for reportedly hacking school’s WiFi to avoid doing school work
Nick Perreault reports: A 12-year-old student could face a felony charge after reportedly hacking into the Baker County Middle School’s WiFi about two weeks ago, all because the student didn’t want to do school work. On Nov. 13, the student used a school-issued laptop to get the school’s IP address. Using another student’s cell phone,…
Montgomery County Public Schools incident was bigger than initially thought: UPDATE
In October, Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland notified parents after one of their high schools in Naviance was hacked. At the time, the high school reported that it had suffered a brute force attack on October 3 that impacted 1,343 Naviance student accounts and one parent/guardian account at Wheaton High School. On November 25,…
Paterson school district spent $13,800 on data breach investigation. But won’t make findings public.
Jayed Rahman reports on a breach that has been characterized by substandard incident response by the school district from the outset: Superintendent Eileen Shafer’s administration spent $13,816 in public funds in its investigation of the data breach that claimed tens of thousands of school district passwords, according to public documents reviewed by the Paterson Times….