Patrick Penner reports: The Mission School District has suffered an IT breach and phishing emails are being sent out from teachers’ email accounts. Do not open them. The Record received two of these emails from seperate (sic) teachers today, which contain little information besides a greeting and FYI (for your information), directing the recipient to…
Category: Education Sector
Insufficient Data Security and Disregard for Student Data Privacy Plague the DeKalb County School District; With Commentary by Jim Siegl
Keegan Brooks writes: The DeKalb County School District has been making thousands of files containing sensitive student and staff information widely accessible to anyone in the district. Types of information exposed have included social security numbers, academic records, medical forms, course transcripts, standardized test scores, discipline records, and the 504/IEP information of students, among others….
Lincoln College was already struggling. Then came ransomware.
Emily Bamforth reported this on April 21 on EdScoop. Somehow I missed it, but it’s so important that I am adding it now: As Illinois’ Lincoln College approached its two-week winter hiatus last December, workers walked in one weekend to find printers spewing threatening notes saying the school’s data was locked up and could only…
University of Essex data breach being taken ‘very seriously’
BBC reports: A data breach affecting more than 400 students is being treated “very seriously”, the University of Essex said. Law firm Hayes Connor, which is representing some students, said an email from an external partner of the college included personal information. A spreadsheet containing student IDs, dates of birth and contact details was attached…
Class cancelled at Kellogg Community College following ransomware attack
Fox17 reports from Michigan: Kellogg Community College announced on May 1 that the technology issues that started days before were caused by a ransomware attack. Due to the ongoing attack, all KCC campuses are closed until further notice. Read more at Fox17. DataBreaches has not seen any report as to who might be responsible for…
Current, former Lakota Local Schools students possibly impacted by third-party data breach
Jared Goffinet reports on a third-party breach affecting some Ohio schools: A ransomware attack of a third-party data company may impact some current and former Lakota Local Schools students. Battelle for Kids was the recent victim of a data breach, according to the district. Battelle for Kids is a company that houses student’s state testing…