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…
Category: Education Sector
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…
OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident
Carissa Woytach reports: A Zoom meeting at a Firelands School building was hacked Monday, forcing the building to suspend live online classes. A seventh-grade online class from South Amherst Middle School was hacked, with a person posing as a student joining the meeting displaying pornography on their screen, according to emails sent to parents and…
NY: Great Neck Yeshiva HS Site Hacked, Anti-Semitic Propaganda Posted
Daniel Hampton reports: The website for a yeshiva high school in Great Neck was down Monday evening following an apparent hack in which anti-Semitic propaganda and racial slurs were reportedly published. Patch confirmed that around 5 p.m., the website for North Shore Hebrew Academy showed the site was “under construction.” Read more on Patch.
TX: Weslaco ISD network hacked, FBI investigating
Elizabeth Gomez-Patino reports that Weslaco Independent School District was hit with a ransomware attack this morning. A statement from the district reads: The Weslaco ISD computer network has been attacked by ransomware and the FBI is investigating the matter. We do not know the extent of the attack, and we are working to contain the…