Bailey Gallion reports: Cyber criminals accessed the identifying information of about 10,000 people last year through the email accounts of 12 Brevard County School Board employees, a school district spokesperson said Friday. The School Board became aware of strange activity in its systems on Oct. 31, 2020, and on Jan. 4 determined that someone had…
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UK: College cyber-attack is still causing problems
Murray Macleod reports: A major cyber-attack on the University of the Highlands and Islands has still not been resolved — two months after it was first reported. Police investigations into the ransom demand — which was rejected and subsequently triggered a series of network problems — is continuing. The size of the demand is not being…
MN: RCTC students birthdates released in data breach
Erich Fisher reports that Rochester Community Technical College discovered it had twice made errors in responding to semi-annual public records requests from LexisNexis: A data breach at Rochester Community Technical College was identified and remedied on March 31 after it was discovered that a third-party company had received the birthdates of 5,392 students. No other…
Florida girl, 18, faces 16-year jail for hacking ‘homecoming queen’ contest with mom’s help
There’s an update on a hacking case first reported in March. Unlike high school students who hack to change grades, Emily Grover and her mother stand accused of hacking to rig the homecoming queen election in her favor. Now it appears that she will be charged as an adult to face multiple felony charges.
Ca: B.C. student loan website down after being taken over by hackers
Frances Yap and Kareem Gouda report: The website that B.C. students visit to manage their student loans appears to have been hacked. At around 9 p.m. Sunday people on Twitter reported the landing page for studentaidbc.ca was replaced with a black page with green writing and music playing in the background. Read more on City…
In: Records stolen from Sector 23 govt school
TNN reports: The UT [Union Territory] police have booked an unidentified person for stealing records and damaging a computer system at a government school in Sector 23. Rajiv, principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, said in his police complaint that an unidentified person entered the computer lab of the school, stole files and set admission records…