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…
Category: Education Sector
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…
Pennsylvania Senate committee approves Phillips-Hill’s measure to protect student data, privacy
The Senate Education Committee approved the Student Data Privacy and Protection Act, according to the measure’s sponsor Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York). Senate Bill 565 modernizes Pennsylvania law to accommodate student information being stored online, as well as students learning and attending school online. As is currently stands, student-related data is being generated, collected, and stored within…
Houston ISD investigating how students’ personal documents ended up on the street
Daniela Hurtado reports: Several students’ records were found scattered on the road and sidewalks outside an elementary school in southwest Houston on Tuesday. Houston ISD is now working to learn how paperwork with personal information like student addresses ended up there. Documents like report cards, folders of completed field trip forms, parent phone numbers, and…