WKBT reports: The Black River Falls School District canceled all classes Friday because of an incident involving unauthorized access to the district’s IT network. Superintendent Shelly Severson sent an email to parents Thursday night saying that student record system is unavailable, and the district has no access to attendance, medication records, family contact information, or…
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Whitefish School District notifies 1,663 after employee fell for social engineering scam
Whitefish School District in Montana recently reported a data breach they discovered on March 11. An investigation discovered that an employee’s computer had been accessible to an attacker because the employee had fallen for a social engineering scam. As a result, a system containing personal information was open and accessible to the attacker. That system…
Details on the Weatherford ISD data breach
DataBreaches.net has received the following statement from Charlotte LaGrone, Executive Director of Communications for Weatherford ISD, concerning the breach DataBreaches.net reported yesterday: Weatherford ISD Statement on Data Breach The confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care is one of our highest priorities. Despite multiple layers of processes and procedures to prevent a data…
Two Texas school districts report breaches, but what happened?
Two Texas school districts — Weatherford Independent School District and Tuloso Midway ISD — reported breaches to the Texas Attorney General’s Office last month, but to cut to the chase, DataBreaches.net has no idea what happened in each case. The Weatherford ISD incident reportedly affected 1,254 Texans. The breach was reported to the state on…
Long Island schools hit with 29 ransomware attacks, hacks, other cyber incidents in past 3 years
Craig Schneider and Joie Tyrell report: Long Island schools suffered from at least 29 incidents of ransomware, computer hacks and other cyber incidents over the past three years, ranging from attacks that crippled computer networks to worker errors that exposed Social Security numbers, addresses and other private information, according to records obtained from the state Education…
Data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack of online grading system: Education Dept.
Michael Elsen-Rooney reports: Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely-used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student data in the U.S. Furious city…