Cam Speck reports that everything old is new again, and students and teachers are discovering some benefits to not being so engaged with technology: Rochester Public Schools (RPS) experienced a cyber attack that had significant consequences on their technology systems, which resulted in them being taken offline. However, in the wake of the attack, the staff,…
Category: Education Sector
Five months after Crown Point Schools suffered a cyberattack, they still don’t know what happened or what they will do
In November, Crown Point Community School students returned to classes after a “network outage” incident that the district feared might be a cybersecurity breach. Now, months later, William Skipworth reports that the investigation into the cybersecurity breach could last another few months. The investigation, which has been ongoing since November, could last a few more…
Hackers Stole School Data. The District Left Teachers in the Dark
More on the Tucson Unified School District ransomware attack by Royal. Jack Gillum reports: Classrooms across Tucson, Arizona, were ravaged by ransomware in January that locked up computer systems and forced teachers to revamp lesson plans. Officials in southern Arizona’s largest school district tried assuring students and staff for weeks that, despite the cyberattack, sensitive data wasn’t…
No evidence found of Little Rock School District data use after ransomware incident
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been “viewed, used or misused.” However, that announcement — posted recently on the 21,000-student district’s website — also…
Two more school districts hit by ransomware: Pineland Schools, Uniondale Union Free School District
Two more school districts have shown up on dark web leak sites today. Pineland Schools Pineland Schools in Vineland, New Jersey, was added to LockBit’s site with some files as proof of claim. LockBit claims to have 64GB of data they will dump on April 18 (tomorrow). The screencaps provided as proof include an image…
Southeastern University silent amid claims of data leak linked to network breach
At the end of February, Southeastern University in Louisiana announced an outage that resulted in the school taking its network offline. Since then, and as DataBreaches first reported on March 4, they have been less than transparent about what happened and the scope of what we know was a ransomware incident involving the BianLian ransomware…