In January, the Griggsville-Perry School District in Illinois announced it had been hit with a ransomware attack. Now, two months later, Vice Society threat actors have added the district to their leak site and dumped files that they had infiltrated. Inspection of the more than 3,000 files in the data dump revealed that most of…
Category: Education Sector
WI: New development in Janesville school district ransomware incident
In October 2021, the School District of Janesville in Wisconsin disclosed that they had experienced a ransomware incident. At the time, they said that no data had been accessed or destroyed and that they had not received any ransom demand. In short order, their claims were challenged on a Russian-language forum where someone calling themself…
NH: Litchfield School District employee wrongdoing created student data security incident
On January 19, 2022, the Litchfield School District in New Hampshire notified the state’s Attorney General of a data security/privacy incident that seems to have previously escaped this site’s awareness. Let’s correct that now. From their report: On December 6, 2021, the District discovered that an individual with authority to access student records exceeded their…
Altoona Area School District data shows up on dark web months after cyberattack
Nicole Fuschino reports: A.A.S.D. Superintendent Dr. Charles Prijatelj said this morning that back in early December of last year the school had an attack on their “routing server” after which they started working with a high-end security software on all of the district servers. However, this week district administration was contacted by employees saying they…
MN: District 518 is investigating whether data was compromised when an employee’s email account was hacked
Kari Lucin reports: A District 518 employee’s email was hacked and an investigation is underway to determine whether any data was compromised. “At this point we don’t anticipate it to be a major data breach or a large issue, but we’re trying to ensure we do our due diligence on checking,” said Superintendent John Landgaard,…
OH: Hilliard City Schools evaluating protocols after releasing 4,200 names of students in public-information request
A. Kevin Corvo reports: Hilliard City Schools leaders are reviewing protocols related to public-information requests after learning Feb. 27 the district released the identity of students who were subject to disciplinary measures. “This was a mistake (and) we need to be better. … Steps are being taken to ensure that it won’t happen again,” Superintendent David…