Jay Weaver reports: Caleb Fadet, who grew up in a working-class family in North Miami, seemed to be making all the right moves to get ahead in life. He graduated with a criminal justice degree from Florida A&M, volunteered as a tutor in the federal AmeriCorps program and earned a scholarship to pursue a vocational…
Category: Education Sector
High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district
See? This is what happens when you don’t teach students how to hack. They have to hire someone. Lisa Vaas reports: A 17-year-old high school boy may face state and federal charges for allegedly having paid a third party to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that crippled the West Ada school district…
“MySchoolFees” site compromised; student data reportedly not compromised
This appears to be a defacement, but until the forensics are complete, we won’t know if any information has been accessed or acquired. Becky Wright reports: The website of a company used by Weber School District, “MySchoolFees,” has been compromised. Parents and students are being asked to stop making online payments through the site until…
NJ: Data breach involves Southwest Licking School District student info
Chad Klimack reports: Southwest Licking Local Schools is alerting parents to a data breach that could involve the release of student information, including names, addresses and even Social Security numbers. The breach could affect up to 113 students, Southwest Licking Superintendent Robert Jennell said. Southwest Licking officials are notifying all potentially impacted families via letter….
Cn: Hacker jailed for linking school website to pornography pages
Ke Jiayun reports: A hacker who gained control of a middle school’s website in Chongming County and linked it to pornography pages was sentenced to 10 months in jail for illegally controlling computers, Chongming County People’s Court said today in Shanghai. The man began hacking into systems three years ago and had broken into dozens…
Chicago Public Schools breach affects 4,000 students
Melissa Sanchez reports: CPS mistakenly shared the names, home addresses, phone numbers, disability status and other personal information of 4,000 students to five vendors seeking to do business with the district. After learning of the unusual data breach, CPS officials say they took steps to remedy their actions. These include instructing the companies to dispose…