Ron Zeitlinger reports: Four Jersey City high school students have been charged after authorities say they accessed the public school district’s computer system and changed grades for some students, The Jersey Journal has learned. According to a source in the school district, board of education members were notified by email Friday afternoon that four Dickinson…
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PA: Judge rejects claim by attorneys for former Franklin Regional student charged in cyberattack
Rich Cholodofsky has an update on a case that started in 2016. Evidence collected against a former high school student charged with launching a series of cyber attacks in 2016 that disabled computer systems throughout Westmoreland County can be used at her trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Common Pleas Judge Tim Krieger rejected a…
Centinela Valley Union High School District notifies employees of W-2 phishing incident
Ding! Ding! Ding! I think we have our first W-2 phishing report of this year, although of course I may have missed other ones. This one involves the Centinela Valley Union High School District in California. From their notification to the state: As a follow up to the email sent to you on January 31, 2019,…
TN: Ex-Rhodes College student pleads guilty to hacking into system, changing his grades
Linda A. Moore reports: A former Rhodes College student pleaded guilty Tuesday to hacking into the college’s computer system to change his grades and keep his scholarship. Michael Geddati, 20, was a freshman pre-med major when between December 2017 and May 2018, he accessed various systems without authorization to raise his grades. Geddati’s actions were detected after a faculty…
NH: Manchester school officials confirm data breach, saying student scores were sent to all Hallsville Elementary families
Kevin Landrigan reports: Manchester school administrators confirmed Friday that a data breach occurred when individual student scores on tests were inadvertently sent to all families of Hallsville Elementary School students. The individual score sheets were attached to an email sent out on the results of the latest iReady data on reading and math tests which…
42,000 SLCC students’ tax documents were lost when unencrypted drive fell out of mailed envelope
Someone asked me today about the lack of W-2 phishing reports or W-2 incidents that we’ve seen so far this year. I responded that I hadn’t really had time to research W-2 attacks yet, but a reader, “DLOW,” has now kindly submitted a news story by Mary Richards of KSL in Utah. The kinds of…