The Vice Society added more schools to their “partners” leak site yesterday. One of them is the Mars Area School District in Pennsylvania. According to niche.com, MASD is a k-12 district with 3,334 students. In a notice posted on the district’s website on October 3, Superintendent Gross described the progress the district was making in…
Category: Education Sector
How Ransomware Is Causing Chaos in American Schools
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: May 19, 2021 was supposed to be just another day at the end of the school year at Sierra College, a community college in Rocklin, California. Instead, hackers hit the school with ransomware, throwing it into chaos. “We are experiencing a major cybersecurity event this morning that is impacting the majority of services…
MO: Grain Valley School District investigates cyberattack
Heidi Schmidt and Jonathan Katz report: The Grain Valley School District confirms it is investigating a cyberattack. “Basically what first went down was the printers,” student Nathan Rathmann said Wednesday about how his last three days have changed in school. “Then throughout the day, we had buggy Wi-Fi. Our power school went completely down, so…
Some Tufts community members’ health insurance information compromised in vaccine clinic data breach
Emily Thompson reports: Tufts announced in a Thursday evening email to the community that its vaccine clinic provider, Pelmeds, has experienced a data breach involving images of patients’ insurance cards. The number of Tufts community members affected by the breach is still unknown. Tufts has ended its contract with the company and postponed all previously…
Hundreds of students have personal emails exposed in data breach at University of Limerick
Donal Macnamee reports: Hundreds of people had their personal email addresses exposed in a significant data breach at the University of Limerick (UL), the Business Post has learned. The incident, which took place in August, impacted Central Applications Office (CAO) applicants considering studying at the university, and has been referred to the Data Protection Commission (DPC). Read…
In: Arrested Russian Hacker “Helped 820 Cheat In JEE-Mains”: CBI To Court
Arvind Gunasekar reports: Russian hacker Mikhail Shargin allegedly aided cheating by 820 students — much more than the initial estimates — by manipulating the online system in last year’s JEE-Mains, the entrance exam for admission to India’s top engineering colleges such as the IITs. The CBI said this today in a Delhi court that gave it two-day custody…