Cyware reports: The Australian Catholic University has suffered a fresh wave of cyberattack that resulted in the compromise of personal details of its staff. This is the second significant security breach that has occurred in a month at one of the country’s tertiary institutions. Read more on Cyware.
Category: Education Sector
Three U.S. Universities Disclose Data Breaches Over Two-Day Span
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Three U.S. universities have disclosed data breach incidents impacting personally identifiable information of students or employees following unauthorized access to some of their employees’ email accounts. All three universities — Graceland University, Oregon State University, and Missouri Southern State University — have notified the individuals whose personal information was potentially stolen or…
TX: Edcouch hit by ransomware
Joanna Guzman reports: A hacker gains access to the city of Edcouch and threatens to erase all the city’s information if officials did not deposit $40,000 in Bitcoins; a form of electronic cash. Information from the water department and city finances were compromised in the attack. The city manager says this comes just after the…
FL: ‘Triple Threat’ Ransomware Attack Cripples Email Systems and Services of Lake City
Cyware reports: The Lake City Police Department is investigating a ransomware attack on their city network systems that resulted in the shutdown of several emergency services. The ransomware used in the attack has been detected as ‘Triple Threat’. What happened? In a breach notification, the Lake City police have revealed that the attack occurred on…
KY: Hopkins County school system dealing with data breach
Rachel Smith reports: Parents of Hopkins County schoolchildren were greeted with a message from the school board Thursday morning alerting them of a data security breach. Because of a school board staff member’s password-protected account being compromised, a currently unidentified user had access to a countywide database, which contains the names, dates of birth and…
9.5 billion rows of email metadata leaked by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Justin Paine reports: While searching Shodan, I recently discovered an ElasticSearch database without any authentication. This database contained metadata related to a huge amount of emails. It was eventually confirmed that this server and the email metadata was controlled by a large university located in China. I would like to thank the university’s security team…