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…
Category: Education Sector
“Aeries Software” Breached and Over 150 School Districts Compromised
Bill Toulas reports that more than 150 school district were compromised by the Aeries software breach. I’m not surprised, as I’ve been updating my little list of schools where I had seen breach notifications. You can find that post of mine here.
Duluth schools had some kind of breach…
News reports out of Duluth say that on Wednesday evening, parents were notified about a cyber security breach involving student accounts. The district has disabled student accounts for now, but is trying to restore them by tomorrow, which is the final day of school there. No other details have been provided so far.
Data from Nigerian and Kenyan universities compromised after unis fail to act upon whitehat’s notifications
Emanuel Paul reports: …Techpoint can confirm that the websites and databases of two Nigerian universities — Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Benin City — and Mount Kenya University, Thika, Kenya are porous, vulnerable and in urgent need of attention. Also, these data which include admission lists, course registration details, and…
Michigan State hit by ransomware threatening leak of student and financial data
Benjamin Freed reports: Michigan State University is being targeted by a ransomware attack carried out by a hacker claiming to have stolen files, including students’ personal information, with the threat of publishing them online if a bounty is not paid. A post appeared Wednesday on a blog affiliated with NetWalker, a relatively newer form of…
KS: ‘In the hands of cyber criminals’: Man sues WSU over hack of decades-old student data
Amy Renee Leiker reports a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this site: A December data breach that jeopardized the personal information of thousands of current and former Wichita State University students — some of whom attended the school decades ago — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. Michael Bahnmaier of Wichita…