Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been “viewed, used or misused.” However, that announcement — posted recently on the 21,000-student district’s website — also…
Category: Education Sector
Two more school districts hit by ransomware: Pineland Schools, Uniondale Union Free School District
Two more school districts have shown up on dark web leak sites today. Pineland Schools Pineland Schools in Vineland, New Jersey, was added to LockBit’s site with some files as proof of claim. LockBit claims to have 64GB of data they will dump on April 18 (tomorrow). The screencaps provided as proof include an image…
Southeastern University silent amid claims of data leak linked to network breach
At the end of February, Southeastern University in Louisiana announced an outage that resulted in the school taking its network offline. Since then, and as DataBreaches first reported on March 4, they have been less than transparent about what happened and the scope of what we know was a ransomware incident involving the BianLian ransomware…
Data breach at Elmbrook School District exposed personal information about former and current employees
Alec Johnson reports: A breach that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of current and former Elmbrook School District employees continued even after the district was aware of the problem. The district learned its system had been compromised on Aug. 23, 2022, according to Elmbrook School Chief Strategy Officer Chris Thompson. Files were removed…
Aspire Public Schools reveals 2022 breach; Rochester Public Schools dealing with current attack
Notices of breaches involving two school breaches showed up today in DataBreaches’ searches: Aspire Public Schools in California submitted notifications to at least two state attorneys general. According to its notification, Aspire learned that an unauthorized party gained access to one Aspire email account at various times between February 2022 and August 2022. There was…
Hackers leak 16,000 Tas documents on dark web
The Fortra/GoAnywhere incident also affected Tasmanian school children. Emily Woods reports: Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their…