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Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. Pearson is a UK-based education company and one of the world’s largest providers of academic publishing, digital learning tools, and standardized assessments. The company works with schools, universities, and individuals in over 70…

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PowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway (3)

Posted on May 7, 2025May 8, 2025 by Dissent

Here’s today’s reminder not to waste your money paying criminals to delete data. After PowerSchool became aware of a hack in December 2024, they paid the then-unnamed attacker(s) to delete data. They subsequently informed their affected clients that they had observed the data deletion and believed that the data had been deleted, and that there…

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Call for Public Input: Essential Cybersecurity Protections for K-12 Schools (2025-26 SY)

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Dissent

As posted at K12 SIX: The K12 SIX Technical Working Group is pleased to open a call for public input into the fourth annual update and revision to the K12 SIX Essential Cybersecurity Protections Series. The goal of the K12 SIX Essential Cybersecurity Protections is to communicate the most important defenses that K-12 school systems…

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Data Breach at Fowler Elementary School District: The Interlock Ransomware Group’s Attack

Posted on May 4, 2025May 4, 2025 by Dissent

It sounds like yet another K-12 school district has fallen prey to a cyberattack that it never successfully detected or thwarted quickly.  SuspectFile reports: The Fowler Elementary School District, located in Phoenix, Arizona, has reportedly fallen victim to a cyberattack involving what may be a substantial volume of sensitive data. The incident was claimed by…

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OK: Cyberattack shuts down Bartlesville School network, state testing postponed

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Dissent

Andy Dossett reports: A network security incident crippled Bartlesville Public Schools’ internet systems, forcing the district to cancel state testing and prompted an investigation into the scope of the breach. Granger Meador, executive director of technology and communications for the district, confirmed May 1 that the disruption rendered many of the district’s computer systems inoperable….

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Russian-linked hackers appear to have launched a crippling cyberattack on Western New Mexico University

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Dissent

Joshua Bowling reports: For nearly two weeks, Western New Mexico University’s website and digital systems have been held hostage by what officials in internal emails have called the efforts of a “foreign hacking group.” The university has not publicly addressed the severity of the attack, but documentation obtained by Searchlight New Mexico indicates that an…

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