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UMD-Baltimore updates Accellion breach notification after finding PII and PHI involved

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Dissent

On April 1, DataBreaches.net reported that the University of Maryland, Baltimore was one of the educational entities impacted by the CLOP hack and exfiltration of Accellion client data, but that neither UMD nor Accellion even knew that until the last week in March. This week, the university issued an updated press release that reveals that…

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FL: Safeguard lapse allowed student to access and disrupt Pinellas County school computer system, police say

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Dissent

Walt Buteau reports: A computer system safeguard that the Pinellas County School District was paying for unknowingly lapsed this year, allowing a 17-year-old student to access and disrupt the district’s system, according to school officials. According to a St. Petersburg police arrest affidavit, the high school student allegedly broke into the district computer network March…

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WA: Clover Park School District investigating ransomware attack

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Dissent

Kevin Ko reports: Facing a “system outage,” the Clover Park School District is investigating why it’s “experiencing a technology issue,” a district spokesperson said in a statement. “We are working with third-party cybersecurity specialists to investigate the root cause of this system outage and will provide more information as our investigation continues,” the statement reads….

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IN: Eastern Hancock schools fall victim to ransomware attack

Posted on May 26, 2021 by chum1ng0

Eastern Hancock schools in Indiana were expected to be back up and running today after the district experienced a ransomware attack over the weekend. When the district discovered the attack Monday morning, it shut down the entire network, preventing the attack from spreading. The shutdown also meant the district lost the ability to receive phone…

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OH: Marietta City Schools Email Hack

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Dissent

Christopher Schmitt reports: The Marietta Police Department is investigating a number of Marietta City School employees’ emails being hacked. It was just released that Marietta Superintendent Will Hampton reached out to the Marietta Police last week. It was reported to the police that a number of employees’ email accounts could have been compromised since 2018….

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In: Data security breach affects private schools; are lazy government employees to blame?

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Dissent

The Hindu reports: Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) database. “Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) are tasked with updating data from all the schools in their respective clusters. However,…

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