Jasmina Alston reports that a second student has now been arrested in connection with the theft – and creation of a searchable database of – 40,000 Jacksonville State University student and faculty data. According to the university, suspects obtained the data by using log in information for a management database used by an institutional office. This is still…
Category: Education Sector
Pickens County School District computer network overloaded by hackers
A number of school districts are reportedly being hit with DDoS attacks over the past few weeks. Is anyone claiming responsibility on social media or elsewhere? Or does anyone know why these districts are being targeted? If so, please contact me.
University of California – Berkeley alerting 80,000 to December hack involving SSN or bank account info (UPDATE1)
From the University of California – Berkeley: UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or bank account numbers. The campus has no evidence that any unauthorized individual actually accessed, acquired or used any…
Computer hacker extradited from Cyprus to Pittsburgh to face charges
First they caught the botnet administrator in Cyprus. Then they extradited him to Pittsburgh. Andrew Conte reports: Andrey Ghinkul, of Moldova, is scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. at the U.S. Courthouse, Downtown. He plans to plead not guilty, his lawyer, Arkady Bukh of New York City, told the Tribune-Review. Ghinkul will be represented by a public defender…
U. Central Florida facing second lawsuit over data breach
If one lawsuit is good, two is better, right? Gabrielle Russon reports: A former UCF men’s basketball team manager who claims his bank account was drained has filed the second lawsuit this month over a computer hack where 63,000 Social Security numbers from former and current students and employees were stolen. UCF’s handling of people’s…
AL: Alleged perpetrator of JSU breach is student there
More details have emerged about the Jacksonville State University breach previously noted on this site. Although a suspect has been arrested, the site is still online. Today, the Anniston Star reports that the unnamed teen, who may be tried as an adult, is a student at JSU and is thought to have used a staff member’s credentials to access…