Katrina Webber reports: The Northside Independent School District has sent letters to about 23,000 former and current students and employees regarding a security breach that might have put their personal information at risk. NISD spokesman Barry Perez said school district officials first got a hint about the trouble in August when it was discovered that…
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OH: Hilliard Bradley High School hacked, students’ information exposed
Tyler Carter reports: Officials say students’ private information was exposed at Hilliard Bradley High School. Authorities say two students are to blame. Court documents state that a student at Hilliard Bradley High School hacked into a school computer and stole other students’ login information. Read more on NBC4. The report cites the police as saying…
CT: Former Shelton High School student arrested for hacking school system’s server
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…
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…