DATA SECURITY: Recent K-12 Data Breaches Show That Students Are Vulnerable to Harm GAO-20-644: Published: Sep 15, 2020. Publicly Released: Oct 15, 2020. Schools and school districts collect and store a lot of personal information about their students. But are K-12 institutions adequately securing student data? We found: Thousands of K-12 students had their personal information…
Category: Education Sector
Privacy nightmare for Toledo Public Schools: Hackers dumped student and employee data
By mid-September, it was clear that school districts were under increased threat of ransomware attacks. In fact, when Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas and Fairfax County Public Schools (CFPS) in Virginia were added to the Maze cartel’s leak site, it seemed to portend potentially big data dumps. Since that dump, Maze dumped…
MI: Walled Lake school district says it’s been hacked
ClickOnDetroit reports: In an email sent to parents late Sunday, Walled Lake Consolidated School District says a system outage has been linked to a cyberattack. The hack will not impact virtual learning. Superintendent Kenneth Gutman said virtual learning will proceed as normal when classes resume Monday morning. Read more on ClickOnDetroit to read the district’s…
Intentional or Accidental? Someone walked in cyberattack at Tyngsborough school
Wale Aliyu reported: Back in school remotely for many schools means back in the fight against hackers. Most of the time they’re remote, but the Tyngsborough school district says it had a hack from someone in person and possibly intentional. It’s not going to be easy for the school to track down the culprit because…
Hackers Share Fairfax County Schools Employees’ SSNs Online
Yesterday, Drew Wilder reported an update to the Fairfax County Public School ransomware incident previously noted on this site: Hackers are sharing more private information after hacking a Virginia public school system’s computer system. Several hundred Fairfax County Public Schools employees’ names and Social Security numbers are now floating around the dark web. That was…
Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Springfield Public Schools district in Massachusetts has become the victim of a ransomware attack that has caused the closure of schools while they investigate the cyberattack. Springfield is the third largest school district in Massachusetts with over 25,000 students, 4,500 employees, and more than sixty schools. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,…