Sergiu Gatlan reports: Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not…
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School community OSG Hengelo closes deal with hackers after ransomware attack
Ruetir reports: OSG Hengelo says that at the moment it is still unclear exactly what data the hackers have obtained. “It is still under investigation. As soon as there is more clarity about this, we will tell you,” the board says in a response to students and parents. Employees and students can now use WiFi…
Rhysida claims to have attacked Paris High School in Illinois
Schools continue to be an attractive and all-too-easy target for criminal groups. This week, Rhysida threat actors added Paris High School in Illinois to their leak site as an “auction” item: There is nothing on the district’s website to indicate any problems or breach. The only possible indicator currently found was on the district’s…
Thousands of students’ data breached in Minnesota Department of Education hack
Hayley Raatis reports that about 95,000 students have been affected by the MOVEit file transfer breach that also affected the Minnesota Department of Education. The initial investigation found 24 files were accessed due to the vulnerability. These files included data transferred to MDE from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to meet state and…
UK: University of Manchester trying to resolve “cyber incident”
Dan Davies reports: The University of Manchester has confirmed experts are working to resolve a “cyber incident”. On Friday morning, the institution said some of its data had been accessed by an “unauthorised party” and data have “likely been copied”. The uni said it was working with a number of organisations including the Information Commissioner’s…
Perhaps victims shouldn’t be so quick to claim “no evidence so far…”
In November 2022, Pearland ISD in Texas informed parents and employees about a breach and told them that ongoing investigation so far had shown no evidence that any sensitive information had been accessed by anyone outside of the district. In June 2023, Pearland sent letters to 55,486 people whose personal information had been accessed or acquired…