Chris Dunker reports: More than 900 current and former employees of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources have been offered identity theft protection after a laptop containing their personal information was stolen overseas. Thieves made off with the laptop of a consultant who helps manage IANR’s employee retirement benefits while that…
Category: Education Sector
Northwest Indian College suffered major file loss in Ryuk ransomware incident
Northwest Indian College describes itself as the only accredited tribal college serving the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. This month, they joined the ranks of colleges hit by ransomware. As seen on their website, this July 11th notice: This week, the Northwest Indian College (NWIC) has been facing a cyberattack identified as the Ryuk…
Lyon County School District hacked in latest cyber attack against local agencies
Jason Hidalgo reports: The Lyon County School District has joined the growing list of local agencies hit by hackers after a virus took down its systems earlier this month. Superintendent Wayne Workman confirmed to the Reno Gazette Journal on Monday afternoon that the school district is working to restore its systems after a virus made…
1.4 million student Social Security numbers found unencrypted in Maryland
Does anyone remember the massive data security incident involving the University of Maryland in 2014? Here’s a link to some of this site’s preliminary coverage of that breach. Hundreds of thousands impacted, lots of media coverage and analyses, and you’d hope that the state would have learned its lesson about storing and protecting student and…
Syracuse schools’ hit by ransomware; ransom demands increase as days go by
Julie McMahon reports: Ransomware caused the Syracuse City School District’s week-long computer outage, a source said. The district’s internet has had systemwide outages since an “event” early Monday morning, officials said. Officials released little information about the investigation and cause of the computer outages. In a statement Friday afternoon, a spokesman said an “attack froze…
Hackers target Monroe College with ransomware, demand $2 million in bitcoin
Stephanie Pagones reports: Monroe College is “under cyberattack” by hackers who demanded approximately $2 million in bitcoin, police and school officials said Thursday. The school’s computer programs were hacked around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday by a group that got in through ransomware and halted the system, cops said. The hackers sent a message demanding that the…