Back in February, we noted a hack involving the University of Sydney. A young hacker named “Abdilo” claimed responsibility for it and noted that he had exploited an Orsee vulnerability. Last week, Chris Howell of Honi Soit followed up on the breach: Closer to home, a reliance on security through obscurity seems to be partially responsible for…
Category: Education Sector
WA: Mercer Island Police investigating case of high school hacking
David Ham reports: Detectives are investigating allegations that a 17-year-old student at Mercer Island High School hacked into the school’s online record-keeping system to change his own grades. According to court documents, a teacher reported to the school administration that she’d noticed odd activity on her school teacher account and then noticed one particular student’s…
Former assistant band director indicted for filing fraudulent tax returns using Broward students’ personal information
A Florida man who was a former assistant band director at a high school in Plantation, Florida was charged for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving former Broward County students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Delvis Demaine Rogers, 27, was charged by indictment with one count of using one or more unauthorized…
Oops – don’t forget to scrub those drivers license images!
On March 20, 2015, attorneys for the Central Dauphin School District in Pennsylvania notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving visitors’ drivers license images. The district has a security system that involves scanning visitors’ drivers licenses when they enter the administration building. The laptop that stored those images, which was provided by…
University of Illinois hacked?
After a period of relative quiet, it appears that the hacker known as “JM511” is back and busy. According to some tweets last night, the University of Illinois has been hacked via SQL injection: What’s happening? #JM511 I got #SqL_injection#blind On: ? http://t.co/qeD2Z3o8HN I’m Ur #nightmare @Illinois_Alma pic.twitter.com/wtIVjSzlt8 — JM511 Hacker☠ (@JM511) May 5, 2015 A screencap from the…
Missouri high school student arrested on suspicion of hacking into school network
Heather Hourigan reports that a Fulton High School student has been arrested after hacking into the school’s computer system. The attack, allegedly by Austin Singleton, caused the network to go down for several hours, although personal information was reportedly not affected. Read more on ABC and KOMU. While the news stories focus on the student’s arrest, there’s…