Samantha Schoenfeld reports: A teenager has been arrested after police say the teen hacked his school district’s computers. According to Shelton Police, a former Shelton High School student was arrested on Thursday and charged with computer crimes in the third degree. The teen is being held in juvenile detention and will be in court Friday. Police say that between November and…
Category: Education Sector
UMaine Systems Reports Phishing Attack
WABI reports: The University of Maine reports some of their staff and students have been victims of cyber criminals. According to the school, 86 individuals were tricked into providing their login credentials in an online phishing attack. Personal passwords were given out to access an online document that was actually fake. We’re told the cyber…
Georgia Tech Human Resources Notifies Employees of Data Breach
Georgia Tech reports: Georgia Tech Human Resources notified employees Thursday morning of a data breach that occurred in Tech’s systems earlier this month. On Dec. 12, a Georgia Tech employee conducted research on a trusted website that had been compromised by a malicious software known as ransomware. The ransomware infiltrated the employee’s computer, which was…
Frederick County Public Schools had brief internal data breach last year
Brandi Bottalico reports that Frederick County Public Schools, currently embroiled in a finger-pointing exercise with the state as to who’s responsible for a recently discovered breach involving former students’ information, had another breach last year. In January 2015, employees’ W-2 statements were viewable by other employees. The breach appeared to be strictly internal and due to human…
GA: Columbia County schools victim of data breach
Mike Lepp reports: The Columbia County School District has revealed that one of their servers suffered a data breach. The attack happened on November 28th when one of their servers was breached by an outside source. […] The affected server did not contain any student data, but it DID contain confidential employee information, including names,…
University of Nebraska-Lincoln notifies 30,000 of breach that may have occurred two years ago
Chris Dunker reports: A breach of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer server potentially exposed thousands of student names, ID numbers and grades to an outside source, campus officials said Tuesday. In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL said an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred…