Ryan Mancini reports: Schools canceled classes on Wednesday after the Swansea Public Schools was reportedly struck by a ransomware attack. Superintendent John J. Robidoux informed families on Tuesday that the district’s network was shut down. Read more at MassLive. h/t, Doug Levin
Category: Education Sector
Bristol Community College acknowledges ransomware attack
Stephen Peterson reports: The computer systems of Bristol Community College were hacked in a “ransomware” incident, college officials acknowledge. The college, which has a campus in Attleboro, said in a statement posted Friday on its website their computer network was hacked by a “criminal cyberattack” and “this incident involved ransomware encryption.” Read more at The…
Keeping Bad Actors Out of K–12’s IP Surveillance System
Eileen Belastock reports: K–12 districts are investing a larger portion of their budgets in new security technologies to create safer environments for their school communities. A 2020 study conducted by Omdia on behalf of the Security Industry Association showed the market for physical security equipment in K–12 and higher education was $716 million in 2020. The K–12…
MN: ISD 728 statement about ransomware attack
ISD 728 in Minnesota was hit with a ransomware attack on November 23. On December 23, they mailed notification letters to those potentially affected. A copy of the letter was submitted to the Montana Attorney General’s Office and is embedded below: The district also posted a notice to families on their website: Statement Released to…
Cyberattacks: higher education on high alert despite the holidays
The following is a machine translation of a report by Valéry Rieß-Marchive: cIn mid-September, Toulouse INP started the school year on a cyberattack with ransomware . At the beginning of December, Grenoble INP informed of an “intrusion” on its computer servers, but not to mention a cyberattack . At the same time, our colleagues from Parisian revealed that the IUT Paris – Rives de Seine was openly…
MI: Hope College Hit with $5M Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
Gary Stevens reports that alleged late disclosure of a data breach has led to a lawsuit. The Holland Sentinel is reporting in Wednesday’s editions that class-action status has been requested by plaintiff Jennie DeVries of Holland for the litigation filed at US District Court for Western Michigan on Monday. In the lawsuit, DeVries claimed that…