Click2Houston reports: A 18-year-old student at Klein Forest High School is currently wanted by police after they say he was responsible for cyber attacks that disrupted STAAR testing for thousands of students in the district. Keontra Lamont Kenemore is accused of electronic access interference, which is a third degree felony. A warrant for his arrest…
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More than one year later, New Jersey school district reveals data breach with sensitive info
NJ 101.5 FM reports: A Monmouth County school district hid details about a cyber-attack for over a year. Only now are they revealing student’s sensitive personal data was compromised. Officials at Shore Regional High School District in West Long Branch began notifying families on Friday. On Monday they issued a public statement. […] Shore Regional…
Fi: Hacker could have personal information of every schoolkid in Helsinki, City says
YLE News reports: The perpetrator of a major hacking of the City of Helsinki’s education division’s database could have accessed the personal information of all compulsory school aged children in the capital, as well as their parents or guardians, the city has revealed in a press release. City authorities announced last week that the data breach affected about…
FTC Finalizes Order with Blackbaud Related to Allegations the Firm’s Security Failures Led to Data Breach
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order against Blackbaud Inc. settling allegations that its lax security practices allowed a hacker to breach the company’s network and access the personal data of millions of consumers including Social Security and bank account numbers. In a complaint first announced in February 2024, the FTC charged that the South Carolina firm,…
One year on, University System of Georgia admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people
Connor Jones reports: Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia’s higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people. University System of Georgia (USG), which oversees 26 higher education institutions in the state, filed a disclosure with…
More than 380,000 additional NYC students had info breached in 2022 Illuminate Education hack
Carl Campanile reports: More than 380,000 additional city public-school students had their personal data hacked in a massive cyber attack — bringing the total number of kids affected to well over 1 million, The Post has learned. The New York City Department of Education last week began sending letters notifying the hundreds of thousands of additional current and…