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School division announces third-party data breach

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Dissent

Melissa Topey reports: Shenandoah County Public School administrators recently announced a vendor they once used had a data breach that compromised some student and administrator data. The school division used software called AIMSweb 1.0, a product of Pearson Assessments, in its elementary and middle schools for about five years until the 2016-2017 school year, said…

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Pearson Hack Exposed Details on Thousands of U.S. Students

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Dissent

Parmy Olson reports that while Pearson may be trying to implant the idea that 13,000 students were affected by its recently disclosed breach, the number may actually be much, much higher. Allan Cunningham, the information-security officer for Washoe County School District in Nevada, said he learned from Pearson that the breach affected data of 114,000…

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Two more school districts that fell prey to malware attacks

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Dissent

Two more to add to any list you may be keeping: First, Spectrum News reports on an incident in New York involving the Watertown City School District: The Watertown School District is the latest school system dealing with a cyber attack. The district released a statement on Monday saying that over the weekend, they experienced…

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Tangipahoa Schools in La. Discover Possible Cybersecurity Breach

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Dissent

Tangipahoa Parish School System phone lines and email will be offline for the most part on Monday as a precaution after district officials discovered a potential cybersecurity issue on their network Sunday evening. Tangipahoa School Superintendent Melissa Stilley said the issue appears to be similar to problems experienced in several district offices. Last week, the Governor of…

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Syracuse ransomware attack: School district expects to pay $50,000, insurance pays rest

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Dissent

James T. Mulder reports: The Syracuse City School District expects to pay a $50,000 insurance deductible to restore its computer system which was hit by a ransomware attack more than two weeks ago. The district did not say if the insurance carrier paid a ransom to attackers. The insurance carrier, who the district did not…

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Morehouse Parish School Board member talks about what happened

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Dissent

Mya Hudgins reports: A State of Emergency has been issued by Governor John Bel Edwards regarding cybersecurity. This ongoing cybersecurity attack has effected multiple local government agencies– including Monroe schools and the Morehouse Parish School District. On July 8th- there was a computer system disruption in Monroe City Schools. The district is scanning every computer…

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