Jana Hollingsworth reports: The Cloquet school district was the victim of a malicious computer software attack last week that resulted in the equivalent of a lock on much of its information, and a $6,000 ransom demand to have it released. School was canceled Thursday so technology employees could work on the problem. The district, which…
Category: Education Sector
MI: Network security breach reported in West Bloomfield School District, student info exposed
WXYZ reports: West Bloomfield School District officials sent an email to parents saying a security breach to their network exposed certain student information. Read more on WXYZ. There’s no statement yet as to whether this might be an inside breach by a student or anything.
Ca: Hacker forces password upheaval at Kitchener high school
Jeff Outhit reports: Police are investigating after a student hacked an internal computer system at a Kitchener high school, forcing other students to consider changing all their social media passwords. This includes passwords for Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, and other personal accounts held by any student who has accessed those personal accounts from a school…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…
AU: Sydney University ‘lost’ computer containing sensitive student information
Michaela Whitbourn reports: The University of Sydney has admitted it “lost” a notebook computer containing sensitive information about students using disability support services, in a major privacy breach that has shocked and angered students. As the Baird government is urged to tackle privacy law reform, the university warned on Friday it could not “absolutely guarantee the security”…
California man hacked CMU student’s account, prosecutors say
Brian Bowling reports: A California college student hacked the student account of a Carnegie Mellon University student to steal her identity and attempt to get credit cards and personal loans in her name, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury indicted Dennis C. Liu, 23, of San Marino, Calif., in May on three counts of…