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Police investigate racist hack that disrupted Ben Franklin High students’ virtual field trip

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Dissent

KYW reports: Police and the School District of Philadelphia are investigating after a virtual field trip by students at Ben Franklin High School was hacked. The district said three dozen students were subjected to suggestive images and inappropriate language. Read more on Radio.com.

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Follow-up: Data from the Toledo Public Schools attack by Maze reportedly being misused

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Dissent

In September, DataBreaches.net reported that Maze threat actors claimed to have attacked an Ohio public school district, but the district was not responding to inquiries from this site about the claims.  One month later, this site named the district as Toledo Public Schools and reported that while Maze had dumped files with student and employee…

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Ca: School division apologizes for privacy breach at Winnipeg Adult Education Centre

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Dissent

CBC reports: Manitoba’s largest school division is apologizing to students at the Winnipeg Adult Education Centre after a privacy breach earlier this week. A link to report cards and other private information for each student was inadvertently emailed to all 400 students at the school, which offers high school credit classes for adult learners. Read more on…

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Lakehead University campus computers remain inaccessible due to cyber attack

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

CBC News reports: Computers on Lakehead University’s campus remain unavailable for use as the institution continues to deal with a cyber attack. Lakehead announced the cyber attack Tuesday afternoon, saying at the time all computers on both the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses were being shut down. Read more on CBC News. The attack was…

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Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

ABC News (AU) reports: RMIT University has suspended online and in-person classes after suffering an IT outage that one government source has described to the ABC as a significant cyber attack. In a statement, RMIT said it was working to resolve “some issues” that had affected its IT systems but did not confirm what had…

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Hundreds of University of Alabama – Huntsville email accounts compromised through phishing attempts

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Anna Mahan reports: Multiple UAH email accounts were compromised through a phishing attempt in January, that’s confirmed by the UAH Office of Information Technology. Some emails impacted did contain personal information such as name, date of birth, or social security number. However, school officials say there was no server or directory impacted and no credit…

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