Jim Geraghty reports on a very significant data leak: This may be the most spectacularly under-discussed story of the pandemic: A dataset of coronavirus cases and deaths from the military’s National University of Defense Technology, leaked to 100Reporters, offers insight into how Beijing has gathered coronavirus data on its population. The source of the leak, who…
Category: Education Sector
Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER’s login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys
Gareth Corfield reports: Updated One of Britain’s most powerful academic supercomputers has fallen victim to a “security exploitation” of its login nodes, forcing the rewriting of all user passwords and SSH keys. The intrusion, which is understood to be under investigation by GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), rendered the ARCHER high-performance computing (HPC)…
(Update1) The Palm Beach County School District suffers massive pwd breach after second grader hacks them
See an important update after the original post. From the no-one-could-have-possibly-foreseen-kids-figuring-out-default-password-conventions dept., Andrew Colton reports: The Palm Beach County School District is in the midst of a massive computer security crisis that draws into question the authenticity of every assignment completed by every student since “distance learning” began, after BocaNewsNow.com learned that an elementary school student…
Mass consumer arbitration is on! Ed tech company hit with 15,000 data breach claims
Alison Frankel reports: A small Baltimore law firm has filed 15,107 demands for arbitration at the American Arbitration Association on behalf of consumers who allege they were affected by a 2018 data breach at the education technology company Chegg. The arbitration demands follow an April 27 ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett of Baltimore that customers must arbitrate their claims…
Aeries Student Information System discloses breach (with updates)
Aeries Software recently announced a data breach. I didn’t see it, but a reader kindly stuck it under my cybernose today so that I could share it with you. The software firm’s notice of April 27 applies to hosted customers of their Aeries Student Information System. From their notice: What Happened? In late November 2019,…
Class-action lawsuit dismissed against Laurentian University hacker
Sudbury.com reports: A class-action lawsuit has been dismissed against a former Laurentian University student who pleaded guilty in 2019 to mischief charges after he hacked into the school’s computer system. LU computer science grad Spencer Brydges and the university were named in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of certain Laurentian students and staff members….