Arvind Gunasekar reports: Russian hacker Mikhail Shargin allegedly aided cheating by 820 students — much more than the initial estimates — by manipulating the online system in last year’s JEE-Mains, the entrance exam for admission to India’s top engineering colleges such as the IITs. The CBI said this today in a Delhi court that gave it two-day custody…
Category: Education Sector
VT: Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack
Auditi Guha reports: The Orange Southwest Supervisory District’s website was hacked Saturday and inundated with “hate speech, symbols, and photographs targeting transgender invidividuals [sic],” superintendent Layne Millington wrote community members on Saturday. The incident prompted district leaders to disable its website and social media accounts, Millington wrote, and to refer the matter to local…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cl (Update): Failure to patch resulted in an embarrassing government leak Last week, DataBreaches noted that Guacamaya Group hacktivists had leaked emails from El Estado Mayor Conjunto De Chile (EMCO), the advisory body of the Chilean Ministry of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other governments. Now BiobioChile reports the government is considering the…
Ca: Yukon education department accidentally leaks student data
Chris Windeyer reports: A few errant keystrokes by an education department worker exposed the data of more than 500 Yukon students, according to a notification obtained by CBC News. “[T]he breach involves a risk of significant harm to your privacy,” reads the letter to affected students. The letter says names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates…
Sierra College investigating scope of latest ransomware incident
In May 2021, Sierra College in California confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack. Whatever steps the college may have taken to prevent another ransomware attack were apparently not sufficient, however, because Vice Society added the college to its list of “partners” this week. Vice did not post any data at this point,…
UK: Six UK schools hit by cyberattack on multi-academy trust
Matthew Gooding reports: A cyberattack on a multi-academy trust which runs schools serving 4,500 pupils has left staff without access to digital systems for more than a week, Tech Monitor understands. The Scholars’ Education Trust suffered the breach last week, and at the time of writing many of its internal systems remain offline. The trust runs six schools in…