David Hannant reports: A college has vowed to investigate after the personal details of hundreds of its applicants were emailed to a single parent by mistake. In August last year, the parent of a City College Norwich student was in an email exchange with one of the college’s customer service team when she received an…
Category: Education Sector
Updating: Napa Valley College Recovering After June Ransomware Attack
There’s an update to the incident first disclosed by Napa Valley College on June 10 and reported in the media on June 25. On July 5, Edward Booth reported: The Napa Valley College website and network systems have been coming back online this week after being shut down by a ransomware attack in early June….
NY: Mattituck School District targeted in ransomware attack Wednesday
Melissa Azofeifa and Joe Werkmeister report: The Mattituck-Cutchogue School District was the latest Long Island district to be the target of a ransomware attack. Superintendent Shawn Petretti issued a statement Friday saying an investigation into the attack is in its early stages. From the district’s statement: “On Wednesday, July 6, our school district became the…
Ca: College of the Desert victimized once again by ransomware; most online services currently down
Jonathan Horwitz reports: The College of the Desert has fallen victim to a second successful malware attack against its online network in as many years. Currently, most of the college’s online services are offline, its website is not available and at least some employees are lacking access to their email accounts, COD public information officer Nicholas Robles confirmed…
Cyberattack suspends Cedar Rapids summer school activities
The Gazette reports: A cyberattack discovered over the holiday weekend has caused the Cedar Rapids Community School District to suspend summer programming until July 11, the district said. Its announcement did not describe the nature of the attack or say which systems it targeted. Read more at The Gazette.
Update on Plainedge School District ransomware attack
On June 15, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat threat actors had added Plainedge School District in New York to their dedicated leak site. At the time, BlackCat (aka ALPHV) only offered a few files as proof but warned more data would be leaked if they did not hear from the district. The threat actors subsequently dumped…