Suporna Das reports: Baruch College extended remote learning through Sept. 29 after announcing on Sept. 27 that the network outages across the campus were due to a malware attack. […] Baruch Computing and Technology Center and other departments have restored some of Baruch’s network, including the website and Baruch’s email. It did not state if…
Category: Education Sector
Audits of New York schools and the State Education Department reveal ongoing significant concerns
In May, the NYS Comptroller’s Office released an audit conducted to determine if the New York State Education Department (SED) consistently follows all laws and regulations regarding the safety and privacy of students’ data, and whether SED is properly monitoring school districts to ensure they are complying with the legislation and regulations that govern data…
Hillsborough County Public Schools alert parents to August cyberattack, data breach
On September 15, DataBreaches reported LockBit3.0 had added Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida to their dark web leak site. There is currently less than two days left on their countdown clock to leak data, although LockBit3.0 does not always strictly follow up with their own deadlines. While the district originally reported on September 5…
Hinds County approves spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for cyberattack recovery efforts
Anthony Warren reports from Mississippi: Hinds County approved more than than $600,000 in payments Friday to restore its computer system after cyberattacks took it down days ago. At an emergency board meeting on Friday afternoon, the board voted 3-0 to approve paying $335,100 for cyber recovery services to Netlink Voice LLC, and up to $265,000…
National Student Clearinghouse notifies California on behalf of almost 900 schools affected by MOVEit breach
Well, we expected there would be a lot of schools notified by the National Student Clearinghouse about the MOVEit breach, but now we have a bit more of the scope. NSC has notified the California Attorney General’s Office on behalf of almost 900 schools. Their notification letter to those affected indicated that the types of…
Leander ISD sends email about students’ vaccination status to over 200 people
Melia Masumoto reports: Cedar Park Middle School sent out an email to 207 parents earlier this week, requesting updated vaccine records. But without blind coping the email addresses, every address on the email was visible to all the recipients. … The email requested an updated immunization record for those students because they were missing the…