Benjamin Freed reports: A school district in Coventry, Connecticut, notified families of its students this week that students’ data may have been swept up in a breach of one of its vendors earlier this year. The breach-notification letter, dated Tuesday, stated that data belonging to the roughly 1,700 students enrolled in Coventry Public Schools may have…
Category: Education Sector
Lewis and Clark Community College sends out notifications concerning ransomware incident
As reported previously, Lewis and Clark Community College was hit with a ransomware attack in November, 2021. They announced it immediately due to impact on the functioning of their systems, but it appears that they are just now issuing breach notification letters to individuals. Their notification letter says that information was encrypted but that there…
Learning Opportunities from Ransomware and Redline Infostealer Events Inside America’s Universities
Britton White writes: After a university was recently hit with Ransomware, I decided to research the university’s domain name searching for any users who might have been hit with Redline Infostealer/Malware. To no surprise, I found many students had unknowingly had their saved browser credentials scraped (stolen/exfiltrated). It didn’t take long to find a student…
Growing Number of Contra Costa Community College District Email Accounts Compromised By Phishing Attack
Takeshi Kawata reports: Over the past month, Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) students and faculty have been inundated with phishing emails from compromised student and employee accounts, according to the district. The vast majority of phishing emails contain links to forms that request individuals’ personal information. The recent outbreak of scam emails is the…
Ca: University Life Sciences students facing mass data breach Life Sciences students facing mass data breach
Asbah Ahmad reports: Confidential student information in the Life Sciences department was disseminated via email on Apr. 7. The information included student GPAs, student names, student numbers, academic plans, and years of study as of Sept. 2021. Students’ sexes and email addresses were also compromised. Read more at The Queens University Journal.
Update: No sensitive data taken during District 518 cybersecurity breach
On March 8, Kari Lucin at The Globe reported that District 518 in Minnesota had confirmed a data breach involving an employee’s email account, but didn’t anticipate a big problem. Yesterday, Lucin followed up with the district’s confirmation that no personal information or data had been taken or used in the February incident. An investigation…