John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STANLEY HUGOCHUKWU NWOKE, also known as “Stanley Banks,” “Banks,” “Hugo Banks,” “Banky,” and “Jose Calderon,” 28, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for his role in…
Category: Education Sector
U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses
Bradley Barth reports: The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014. Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as…
NV: CCSD says data breach has exposed student, staff information
Ricardo Torres-Cortez reports: Names and “in some instances” dates of birth of more than 550,000 former and current Clark County School District students were compromised in a data security incident. The snafu occurred with a clinical assessment program — also known as AIMSweb — which was contracted by CCSD through the Pearson vendor, said the…
AL: Houston County Schools pushes school start back further
WTVY reports: Houston County Schools announced their second delay to the start of the school year. Students will now report back on Monday, August 12. Open House will be held on Thursday, August 8 from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. The delay is due to continued problems caused by a malware attack on the system’s…
IL: Dist. 26 Discovers Data Breach (Pearson)
Journal Staff reports: River Trails School Dist. 26 officials said they became aware Wednesday (July 31) of a data breach that occurred last November affecting student information dating back to 1997. According to Dist. 26 Supt. Nancy Wagner, the district received a letter from Pearson, a British-owned education publishing and assessment service for schools and…
Morris Jeff School becomes latest Louisiana school to suffer cybersecurity breach
Della Hasselle reports: Morris Jeff Community School in New Orleans has become the latest Louisiana public school — and apparently the first in the metro area — to experience a cybersecurity breach, continuing a crisis that has prompted an emergency declaration from Gov. John Bel Edwards and forced officials to try to minimize damage ahead…