Brian Krebs reports on a follow-up to the case of Missouri’s Governor Parsons tried to sue a journalist and others who had responsibly disclosed and reported on a data leak by the state. The data leak first came to public attention in October, 2021 when Josh Renaud reported on the exposure and the steps the…
Category: Education Sector
Broward schools took extraordinary steps to hide key details of massive data breach
Scott Travis reports: When the Broward School District learned that hackers may have accessed the personal data of thousands of people from district servers, its response was to hide and delay. The district took extraordinary steps to keep the public, including 50,000 potential victims, from learning about ransomware attacks that took place from November 2020 to March…
Allen ISD cybersecurity update: personal information of more than 500 employees hacked in September 2021
Jay Wallis provides an update on the Allen ISD ransomware incident first reported by the district in September. Part of the district’s newly revealed findings: According to the investigation, there is no evidence that any unauthorized user got into Allen ISD’s databases, including the Student Information and Financial databases. District officials said they determined that…
TCEA 2022: One School District Shares What Not to Do to Prevent a Ransomware Attack
Tasshi Rowe reports: “It’s like your home was robbed, and there’s nothing you can do about it. We had 800 employees and 5,200 kids, and everybody is shut down,” said Julie Gauthier. The deputy superintendent of Port Neches-Groves Independent School District in southeast Texas explained to a room full of TCEA attendees in Dallas what it…
Cyber Attacks On Schools: Who, What, Why and Now What?
Alyson Klein reports: Shadowy criminal gangs with sinister names like The Dark Overlord are terrorizing schools. They hack into district networks and then demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom payments, making threats of terrible consequences if schools do not agree to hand over the money. It’s a growing problem that’s now tougher to…
Houstonian sent to prison for fraud schemes totaling nearly $2M
There is an update to a case involving the Teton School District that was first reported in 2018. Although the FBI was able to recover some of the stolen funds for the district, this was not the first time the district had suffered this type of breach. But at least now the threat actor responsible…