Catherine Groenestein reports: An anonymous computer hacker has demanded US$5000 from a provincial high school to return course work they are holding for ransom. Hāwera High School staff in South Taranaki switched on their computers on Monday to discover a message demanding payment for the return of encrypted data on a server containing students’ work…
Category: Education Sector
Yale University notifying 119,000 that hackers stole their Social Security numbers and details in 2008-2009
Between April, 2008, and January, 2009, hackers accessed and exfiltrated data on 119,000 individual affiliated with the university. The hacked data included the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, date of birth (in most cases), and e-mail addresses and physical addresses in some cases. Not knowing about the hack at the time, Yale did nothing. And…
Owners of 3 small Indian IT firms arrested for leaking data
Express News Service reports: Proprietors of three small-scale IT companies were arrested on Saturday in connection with the data leak of students who appeared for the class 10 and 12 state board exams this year.The serious breach of data came to light recently as data companies were openly selling the district-wise details of nearly 8…
Florida high school caught hacking into opponents’ Hudl videos
Jim Halley reports: Coaches for the football team at Braden River (Bradenton, Fla.), which finished 9-2 last season and advanced to the second round of state 7A playoffs, were caught using a college Hudl account to access opponents’ game and practice videos. As first reported by The Sarasota Herald, a Hudl investigation determined that the…
Nearly 8K Georgia Tech students had personal info leaked in email gaffe
Jonathan Carlson reports: The CBS46 Bulldog learned exclusively of an accidental breach of records at Georgia Tech involving everything from grades to home addresses. Georgia Tech tells CBS46 that nearly 8,000 students were impacted. “It is kind of uncomfortable, ya know,” one student told us on campus. Students are reacting after a staffer in the…
KS: Garden City Community College investigating possible email breach
Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…