Audra Streetman reports: The University of Colorado released new information on Friday about the Accellion data breach that compromised more than 310,000 university records. Officials say the data accessed in the breach includes personally identifiable information, including grades and transcript data, visa and disability status, medical and prescription information and in limited cases, Social Security…
Category: Education Sector
Ch: General trade school (Allgemeine Gewerbeschule) hit by Ryuk ransomware
The following is a translation of a press release from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Education Department that appears at https://www.bs.ch/nm/2021-allgemeine-gewerbeschule-ags-wird-ziel-eines-professionellen-hackerangriffs-ed.html: All of the school’s servers are currently unavailable, so no data can be accessed. To ensure that school starts on Monday, a temporary WLAN network was activated, the data center isolated and the host systems shut…
Ransomware attack forces Haverhill Schools to cancel classes
Erin Tiernan reports: At a time when a shift to remote learning has all but made snow days obsolete, Haverhill Public Schools students will be getting one in April after a ransomware attack forced administrators to cancel school on Thursday. The Haverhill Public School District said its IT department noticed early Wednesday morning that something…
Cyber Criminals Hone Attacks Against Schools
Kathleen E. Dion of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI recently issued a Flash alert warning higher education institutions, k-12 schools, and seminaries about increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting the education industry. According to the warning, “[s]ince March 2020, the FBI has become aware of PYSA ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign government entities,…
Vulnerability: Est. Millions of Users of Popular Educational Platform Exposed to Account Takeover Threats And More
A lot of universities have been attacked recently. Not all attacks are related to the Moodle vulnerability described in this report (e.g., all the Accellion-related university breaches), but the Moodle vulnerability worth noting and addressing if it applies to your uni. Chase Williams reports: At the beginning of October 2020, the Wizcase cyber research team, led by…
Technological University of Dublin victim of ransomware attack
The following is the text of an email reportedly sent to TU students. It was submitted anonymously to DataBreaches.net: Dear Students, The Tallaght campus has been subjected to a significant ransomware attack on our entire on-site ICT systems. The disruption to services occurred early on Thursday morning and the cause later identified as a ransomware…