Leon Stafford reports: Henry County Schools Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis said Tuesday leaders continue to investigate “suspicious activity” that has resulted in the district restricting Internet access since last week. In a video posted to YouTube, Davis did not say what activity led the south metro Atlanta district to decide to take its Internet offline…
Category: Education Sector
Data security breach at Beaverton School District
KGW reports: The Beaverton School District has been hit by a cybersecurity breach that may have compromised student passwords, the district announced in a message posted to its website and sent to parents Tuesday evening. Student passwords to email accounts, Google documents, Canva and other platforms all may have been compromised. The district said it…
Minnesota schools turn to voters, plead for lawmaker help in fending off cyberattacks
Dana Ferguson reports: Faced with a growing threat of cybersecurity breaches, school districts around the country and in Minnesota are turning to local taxpayers and state officials for help in building up their defenses. Voters in at least 17 communities last week weighed ballot questions letting local districts raise tax levies for cybersecurity improvements; more…
Time’s up, Sunday edition: Some Jeffco Public Schools data was leaked, some data was put up for sale
As first reported on DataBreaches on Friday, SingularityMD indicated that they would be leaking or selling Jeffco Public Schools data. They followed through. In one thread on a popular hacking forum, they leaked what they claim is a 500 MB csv file for an AD Export from November 2020. The leak contains “includes hashed passwords,…
Time’s up: SingularityMD sets up to sell data from Jeffco Public Schools
It looks like “SingularityMD,” the hacker(s) of Clark County School District in Nevada and Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, are looking to start selling the data they exfiltrated. In an introductory post today on Breach Forums, they write: We are SingularityMD. We specialize in low sophistication corporate network infiltration. We are behind the following hacks…
Butte School District shuts down computer network after system compromised
John Emeigh reports: The Butte School District was forced to shut down its computer system this week to investigate an unknown breach of the network that serves all the public schools in the city. “All I can say is that we’re still investigating the issue and we do not have any clear information of what…