DT staff reports: More than 200 current and former students of Pellissippi State Community College could be in danger of identity theft because an unauthorized user had access to their personal information, the school revealed Monday. Pellissippi State said it had notified 222 people whose information might have be been compromised through an email account…
Category: Education Sector
Hackers targeted universities with phishing attacks
The FBI has published more about a case that was previously reported on this site (the DOJ’s press release at the time can be found here). Today, the FBI wrote: Two men who were citizens of Nigeria, living in Malaysia, and conducting their crimes from behind computers likely assumed they were safe from the reach…
TX: Crosby ISD’s IT system hacked by ransomware virus
Kaila Contreras Crosby ISD officials notified parents and staff that a ransomware virus has infiltrated the district’s IT system. The district’s IT Department discovered the ransomware virus around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. School officials will have no access to technology, including telephone services until the matter is resolved. The IT Department said there is no…
Data leak: Breach too far
NST reports: IT has happened again. This time at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) where records of just over a million students have been leaked. Is it an inside job? Hard to tell, but UiTM is probing. UiTM sources contacted by the New Straits Times say it may just be put together from multiple sources by…
MY: Over 1 Million UiTM Students and Alumni Personal Details Leaked Online
Vijandren reports: A total of 1,164,540 records, belonging to students who enrolled for various courses at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) between 2000 and 2018 has been breached and leaked online. The leaked data includes detailed records of students from the UiTM main campus in Shah Alam, as well as it’s 13 autonomous state campuses around the…
GA: Mount Zion student pleads not guilty to computer hacking to avoid homework
Tony Reid reports the update to a story previously noted on this site: A Mount Zion High School student is pleading not guilty to three charges of tampering with computers after police said he shut down his school district’s computer network while trying to sabotage a homework assignment. Gage C. Hart, 18, appeared in Macon…