Ray Kisonas reports: A Monroe High School student is facing possible felony criminal charges after the district’s computer system was hacked and its Internet service disrupted several times over the past two weeks. The alleged cyber-hacker, a senior, has been removed from school and faces disciplinary action in addition to legal troubles. Monroe Public Schools…
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Auburn University notifying over 360,000 current and former students of breach
Oops. Auburn University discovered that students’ personal information – names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and students’ academic information – was exposed on the Internet between September 1, 2014 and March 2, 2015 when they discovered the problem. No financial information, bank account or payment card information was involved. While the university…
CA: Former Chico State student accused of “bizarre and twisted” crimes
Almendra Carpizo reports: A former Chico State University student is accused of a series of “bizarre and twisted” crimes that include urinating on his roommates’ bedding, hacking a student’s school account to drop the person’s classes and stealing nude photographs from a female student. Daniel Deluna-Martinez, 27, of Hamilton City, pleaded not guilty Thursday in…
NJ: Weak password blamed in Swedesboro school hack
Carly Q. Romalino reports: A weak network password allowed hackers to infiltrate a Gloucester County school district’s network last week, holding its files hostage for more than $125,000, according to Educational Information and Resource Center experts. A ransomware attack on Swedesboro-Woolwich Elementary School District’s network last week interrupted state-mandated testing and locked down network files…
Aussie teen hacker Abdilo’s home raided, and he’s ordered to turn over his passwords and decryption keys
Will Ockenden and Benjamin Sveen report that the teenage hacker known as “Abdilo” had his home raided by Australian law enforcement in a pre-dawn raid. DataBreaches.net has reported on a number of Abdilo’s claimed hacks, which included an Australian travel insurance company, the University of Sydney, and numerous educational institutions in the U.S. and elsewhere. Most of his…
MD: Data Breach at Westland Middle School Releases Student Locker Combinations
From the locker-numbers-today-grades-tomorrow dept.: Krista Brick reports: Information technology professionals are trying to determine today how students were able to access a secured computer file at Bethesda’s Westland Middle School and distribute the names, locker numbers and locker combinations for that school’s 1,400 lockers. Montgomery County Public School’s Westland Principal Alison Serino told MyMCMedia Wednesday that…