KIPP SoCal is notifying parents of a breach after a vendor alerted them to it. In their notification, they explain: On June 2, 2020, KIPP SoCal was notified of an issue involving unauthorized access to a data file containing certain students’ information. The issue was found when a vendor that we contract with discovered that…
Category: Education Sector
PH: The Far Eastern University portal hacked
Manila Bulletin reports: The Far Eastern University’s (FEU) portal data was leaked by a hacker group Tuesday night. In a facebook post, FEU’s Kadiwa Student Coalition said a hacker group named Pinoy Grayhats is responsible of the leakage of 1,000 FEU student data. Read more on MB.com. A report on Rappler.com adds more detail: Meanwhile,…
Columbia College Chicago should have shared data breach information sooner, experts say
Kendall Polidori and Mari Devereaux report: Eight days after the school fell victim to an attack by NetWalker, a group of data hackers, Columbia officials sent a collegewide email stating the college is “working diligently around the clock with outside professionals and law enforcement to protect its student community and employees.” The email said individuals…
AU: Activewear retailer hacked, data now on the dark web
RagTrader reports: Activewear retailer In Sport had its head office server and computers ransomwared in May, as cyber crime during COVID-19 escalates. In a letter to customers, it revealed the attack was detected on May 16 but it was unknown what files hackers accessed. Read more on RagTrader. Update: This appears to be an attack by…
PH: San Beda student portal hacked, personal data of thousands stolen
Rambo Talabong reports: A still unidentified hacker has infiltrated the online student portal of San Beda University (SBU), gaining access to personal information and social media passwords of thousands of students and apparently releasing them online. “We discovered an incident where your email address and password, as used in the student portal was accessed by…
NetWalker ransomware continues streak of college attacks
Benjamin Freed reports: A form of ransomware known as NetWalker added two more colleges to its list of victims Wednesday by claiming to have stolen files from Columbia College in Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco, according to screenshots posted on a blog maintained by the hackers behind the attacks. Read more on…