WBTW reports that a South Carolina school district is paying a ransom demand because they have no way to access 25 servers with elementary school data after their system was locked up by ransomware: The Horry County school system remains locked out of several servers after a ransom computer virus got into the system last week. Charles…
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UK: University of Greenwich data breach exposed sensitive student info online
Okay, there are breaches involving student information and then there are really bad breaches involving sensitive student info. This is one of the latter. The BBC reports that details about hundreds of London-based research students were exposed online by the University of Greenwich. Students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and signatures were…
Des Moines administrator mistakenly publishes student scores
Jason Clayworth reports: The individual test scores of Des Moines elementary students identified as part of a behavioral needs presentation were posted on a personal website by a school administrator, a likely violation of federal law, a state official said Monday. The color-coded data are three years old and highlighted the names of Lovejoy Elementary…
NY: Phishing scheme may have resulted in tax refund fraud
There’s an update to a reported phishing attack involving Hudson City School District. John Mason and Roger Hannigan report: The phishing scam that netted the Social Security numbers of all Hudson City School District staff members has moved in a troubling new direction. Several staff members, according to District Superintendent Maria Suttmeier, have started to…
D.C. accidentally uploads private data of 12,000 students
Perry Stein reports: The private information of about 12,000 D.C. Public Schools students was accidently uploaded to a publicly accessible website, the District’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education announced Thursday in an internal memo. The information, which was online for several hours Tuesday, has been taken down. Officials said someone in the office…
Police: Harrison teacher’s website hacked
Joseph Paul reports: A Harrison High School student is suspected of hacking a teacher’s website and posting offensive content, officials said Wednesday. Tippecanoe School Corp. administrators discovered Monday night that the teacher’s classroom page — located within Harrison’s website — had been accessed without authorization, spokesperson Sue Scott said. The suspect appears to have “obtained the teacher’s password,” Scott said, posted “inappropriate and offensive…