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Sweetwater Union High School District now admits February outage was a hack, but still hasn’t answered questions

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Dissent

There’s an update to a report in February about an outage that wasn’t described at the time as a hack or ransomware attack. Laura Acevedo reports: The Sweetwater Union High School District has confirmed a hack was the cause of a days-long system outage at their facilities, saying the personal information of employees, students, and families…

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Stephen F. Austin State University students grow anxious about falling behind as school reels from cyberattack last week

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Dissent

Kate McGee reports: More than a week after Stephen F. Austin State University was hit with a cyberattack, leaders at the public university in the East Texas Pineywoods are still working to fully restore email and other online services for the 11,600-student campus. University spokesperson Graham Garner confirmed Tuesday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

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Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not…

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School community OSG Hengelo closes deal with hackers after ransomware attack

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dissent

Ruetir reports: OSG Hengelo says that at the moment it is still unclear exactly what data the hackers have obtained. “It is still under investigation. As soon as there is more clarity about this, we will tell you,” the board says in a response to students and parents. Employees and students can now use WiFi…

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Rhysida claims to have attacked Paris High School in Illinois

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dissent

Schools continue to be an attractive and all-too-easy target for criminal groups. This week, Rhysida threat actors added Paris High School in Illinois to their leak site as an “auction” item:   There is nothing on the district’s website to indicate any problems or breach. The only possible indicator currently found was on the district’s…

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Thousands of students’ data breached in Minnesota Department of Education hack

Posted on June 10, 2023 by Dissent

Hayley Raatis reports that about 95,000 students have been affected by the MOVEit file transfer breach that also affected the Minnesota Department of Education. The initial investigation found 24 files were accessed due to the vulnerability. These files included data transferred to MDE from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to meet state and…

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