On October 28, this site noted a report that Washington Central Unified Union School District in Vermont had been the victim of an as-yet-unconfirmed ransomware attack. The district has now issued a notification that makes clear that personal and health information of students and personnel may have been accessed or acquired. Their announcement also indicates…
Category: Education Sector
Schools across the nation are getting hit with ransomware attacks—but they won’t admit how much it’s costing them
Grace Ferguson reports: When the personal information of students and employees at Fairfax County Public Schools showed up on the dark web in October 2020, the Virginia school district had been in a standoff with hackers for nearly a month. Even with help from the FBI, Virginia State Police, and a hired cybersecurity firm, the district…
South Carolina School District reports security incident
Sarah Coble reports: A school district in South Carolina is investigating a “cyber-incident” that it says impacted hundreds of staff computers. On October 4, some of the networks of Colleton County School District stopped operating. The unusual activity was detected by the district’s information technology staff, who determined that a cybersecurity incident had occurred. Read more on InfoSecurity. From…
1,355 NUS Society members’ personal data stolen, possibly put on sale on Dark Web
Kenny Chee reports: The personal data of 1,355 National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) members has been stolen after the society’s website was hacked early last month, NUSS said on Monday (Nov 1). When asked by The Straits Times, the university graduate club did not say whether the data involved was encrypted. But it said…
Merced County School District vendor reports a burglary that compromised protected health information
The Foundation for Medical Care of Merced County previously provided third party administration services for the Merced County School District’s medical and dental plans. The foundation currently provides member claims services for the school district’s medical plans. On August 3, 2021, there was a break-in at the foundation’s location during which an unknown intruder punched…
Update: Files that appear to be from Janesville School District appear on a Russian-language forum
Janesville School District in Wisconsin was fairly forthright this week about being hit by a ransomware attack. But while they denied receiving any ransom note, and initially claimed that no data had been accessed or destroyed, some data that appear to be from the ransomware attack were posted today on a popular Russian-language forum. A…