Bethany Wales reports: The leak in June 2017 saw an email containing confidential details about students’ extenuating circumstances sent to hundreds of their peers. The circumstances, detailed in a spreadsheet, included suicidal thoughts, sexual assault, and serious family illnesses and bereavements. Now, a Freedom of Information request has revealed the university’s insurers paid out a…
Category: Education Sector
Cal Poly’s website gave visitors a surprise: hardcore porn
Monica Vaughan reports: An official Cal Poly website for the San Luis Obispo university’s Orfalea College of Business has all the related links you would expect: course descriptions, career pages, student groups and … porn? For several months, it appears that people who clicked to learn more about a professional student group called Information Systems Association were…
CA: Mountain View High School teachers and administrators forced offline after cyber attacker breaches district
Staff at this student-run publication report: The school collected attendance on paper this morning after an unknown digital attacker breached MVLA digital systems, locking many district teachers and administrators out of their MVLA Microsoft accounts and in some cases, other necessary accounts such as Gmail and Aeries, according to MVHS Principal David Grissom. Grissom said…
IL: District 155 system access ‘limited’ after ransomware attack, no data breach, officials say
Cassie Buchman reports: Access to Crystal Lake Community High School District 155’s information systems currently is limited after its computers were infected with ransomware sometime Friday. Read more on Northwest Herald (subscription required)
Regis University paid ransom after cyberattack last fall
Noel Brennan reports: Six months after Regis University computers were targeted in a cyberattack, the university hosted a conference to help government agencies, businesses and schools better defend and recover from similar attacks. […] “Regis did pay the ransom to get the systems back up as quickly as we could,” said Jennifer Forker, a spokesperson…
Maze Team updates its site, dumps more victims’ data
The Maze Team attackers continue to announce more of their ransomware victims that have not complied with their ransom demands, and they continue to dump data from those who do not pay them. When I checked their site again today, I noticed that they had announced that they have dumped all their files on the…