Treasure Valley Community College (“TVCC”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal information of certain TVCC community members. TVCC is offering complimentary credit monitoring services to them. On August 25, 2020 , TVCC learned that unauthorized access to an employee email account had by an unknown person may have exposed personal…
Category: Education Sector
Roanoke College delays spring semester after cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports that Roanoke College in Virginia is delaying the start of spring semester while they continue to try to recover from what sounds like a ransomware attack. “On Saturday, Dec. 12, Roanoke College experienced a cyber event which impacts our ability to access files. The College’s IT staff disconnected the College’s network and…
Huntsville City School warns parents that personal info may have been stolen in ransomware attack
On December 1, Huntsville City Schools shut down classes for the day due to a ransomware threat. Now, after three weeks of investigating the situation, the district is warning parents about personal information being compromised in the attack. Megan Reyna of WAAY31 reports: School leaders say it is possible social security numbers and email addresses…
Ransomware threat actors dump data from yet another k-12 district
The past few days have not been great ones for k-12 districts. As this site reported, DoppelPaymer ransomware threat actors recently dumped data from both Pascagoula-Gautier School District in Mississippi and Gardiner Public Schools in Montana. Now a third school district has also had some of their data dumped. On December 14, this site had…
Helena Public Schools notifies some employees after burglar snatched USB with their timesheets
Helena Public Schools recently notified some current and former employees involved in the after-school student program that their data was on a stolen USB drive. According to their notification letter, on September 28, 2020, the district discovered that the Lincoln Elementary School building had been burglarized over the previous weekend. Among several items that were…
DoppelPaymer dumps data from public school districts in Mississippi and Montana
Why ransomware threat actors go after small school districts with few resources still puzzles me. The districts may be “low-hanging fruit” from a security perspective, but they generally do not have the resources to pay big ransom demands. So why target them? My puzzlement notwithstanding, a number of ransomware teams do attack k-12 districts. DoppelPaymer…