The University is responding to a criminal cyberintrusion through which hackers apparently originating in China gained access to servers at UConn’s School of Engineering. UConn has implemented a combination of measures intended to further protect the University from cyberattack, and to assist individuals and research partners whose data may have been exposed. UConn IT security professionals,…
Category: Education Sector
AU: University Of Queensland logins leaked by “Nightmare Squad”
It appears the University of Queensland has either been hacked by “Nightmare Squad” or the group leaked some data that was easy to find. @NightmareSquad describes themselves as an “#Anonymous blackhat team fighting for the people of South America.” Their Twitter account has recently announced a number of hacks in Brazil, including some government sites. I tweeted them an…
PK: Hacker Baba911 hacks DG Khan Board website on result day
The News Teller reports: A hacker group known as ‘Hacker Baba911′ hacked the DG Khan Board website just before a while when it was about the announce metric results. The group put few lines bearing messages for students as well as for the board. It starts with congratulating to those who would get good marks….
King’s College London student data breach results in underaking
King’s College London fell afoul of the Data Protection Act, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) learned that a spreadsheet containing personal data -including exam results – of 1831 students and applicants was sent in error to 22 students. Of note, the spreadsheet had been worked on by and transferred between several employees prior to being sent out…
Ca: Case of accused CBE teen hacker adjourned until August
Daryl Slade has an update on the case of the teenager accused of hacking the Calgary Board of Education: The lawyer for a 15-year-old boy charged last month with allegedly hacking into Calgary Board of Education servers over a five-month period appeared in youth court on Thursday. The teen, who was represented by lawyer Joel Chevrefils, allegedly…
Massachusetts DESE finds Tewksbury data breach violated state law
In April, this site noted what I described as a “horrific” breach involving the Tewksbury public schools. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet that had been publicly available online not only exposed personal and private details for the out of district placements of 83 special education students, but it rated their parents according…