When threat actors gave Greenville Technical College in South Carolina until September 4 to respond to their ransomware demands, the college didn’t worry. They had decided not to pay because they were able to recover from the attack without paying for a decryption key. But there was a second part to the ransomware attack —…
Category: Education Sector
CA: Selma Unified hit with ransomware attack
Fox26 News reports: Selma Unified School District says it was hit by hackers. The attack happened overnight locking up some of the systems Friday including the student information system. Read more on Fox26. Note that this is Selma, California, and not Alabama.
NV: Clark County School District notifies parents after data security incident
AP reports: School officials in Las Vegas notified parents of what administrators termed a “data security incident” involving district computers. The Clark County School District said Thursday the extent of the breach was being evaluated and that distance learning was not affected. Read more on KXNT. The district tweeted a copy of the email it…
AR: Gosnell schools hit with ransomware attack
Aaron Castleberry reports: The Gosnell School District is recovering from a ransomware attack on Sunday. Superintendent Bornad Mace said ransomware software infiltrated the school’s system Sunday morning. Mace said the district’s tech team, the Arkansas Division of Information Services, and the P12 Cyber Threat Response Team worked to clear and recover data on Tuesday. Read…
NC: Hackers want money to release Haywood County school district files
Rex Hodge reports: There will be no remote learning in Haywood County schools for a second day. A Ransomware attack against the district’s computers shut schools down Monday. They’ll be shut down again Tuesday. Read more on WMYA. It sounds like they have no intention of paying any ransom and that they do have some…
University of Utah pays $457,000 to ransomware gang
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The University of Utah revealed today that it paid a ransomware gang $457,059 in order to avoid having hackers leak student information online. The incident is the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks where criminal groups steal sensitive files from the hacked companies before encrypting their files; and in case…