In Illinois, Katlyn Smith reports: Bartlett police are considering whether to level criminal charges against two Bartlett High School students who hacked into an Elgin Area District U-46 online portal and changed student attendance records, officials said Friday. The duo also hacked into at least one U-46 staff member’s email account, officials said. Read more…
Category: Education Sector
PA: Police investigate hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy
Ryan Hughes reports: Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a $1 million hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy in Berks County. The school received an anonymous email on Dec. 16 at the campus in Douglass Township. It threatened harm against its computer system and property if demands were not met, state police said Friday. “This person was…
Maricopa County colleges computer hack cost tops $26M (so far)
Mary Beth Faller reports: The Maricopa County Community College District continues to deal with fallout from the massive computer-system breach last year, and the latest figures show the cost to taxpayers to deal with it has now topped $26 million. Read more on The Arizona Republic. To date, the MCCCD breach stands as the largest…
Point Loma Nazarene University discloses breach after employees fall for phishing scheme
Point Loma Nazarene University is notifying an unspecified number of individuals of a security breach that occurred between October 7 and October 20. The breach, involving uanuthorized access to 5 employee email accounts, occurred as a result of successful phishing attempts. While the investigation into the matter is reportedly ongoing, the external forensics experts informed the…
Details emerge on UC Berkeley hack
More details have emerged on the UC Berkeley hack reported here last week: UC Berkeley officials announced today (Monday, Dec. 15) that they have begun notifying approximately 1,600 individuals that their personal information may have been hacked by an individual or individuals who gained access to servers and databases in the campus’s Real Estate Division….
University of California – Berkeley discloses data breach
The University of California -Berkeley is notifying individuals of a recent data breach in the Real Estate Division. Although there is no evidence that any unauthorized individual actually acquired and used personal information, the breach involved unauthorized access to servers used to support a number of Real Estate programs and work stations, specifically those in the units formerly known…