“Duneland School Corporation” sounds like it should be an education-related business but it’s actually a school district in Indiana. On October 27, they discovered that they had experienced a security incident that sounds like a ransomware attack. In a statement on their website, they note: Through our investigation, we determined that an unauthorized person obtained…
Category: Education Sector
Evanston Township High School Defrauded Of $48,570 In Hack That Exposed 1,139 Identities
I’m backfilling a breach report from November as I just saw it now and it seems that others tracking k-12 data breaches may not have been aware of it, either. Jonah Meadows had reported that Evanston Township High School officials in Illinois were scammed out of more than $48,000 during a monthslong data breach that…
Luxemburg-Casco School District notifies employees of data breach
On November 18, 2021, Luxemburg-Casco School District in Wisconsin experienced a data security incident that resulted in unauthorized access to 1,399 individuals’ personal information involving their name in combination with social security number and financial account information without the PIN number or access code. In response to the breach, and in addition to offering those…
Oops, did we miss these education sector breaches for k-12?
Came across these today while researching something else, so I thought I would just list them here for those who track k-12 breaches. Coffeyville School District in Kansas had a data security incident in July of 2020 that they detected in August of 2020. Their notification letter of February 2021 indicates that names and SSN…
CA: Man Charged With Hacking Student Accounts, Interrupting High School Classes
MyNewsLA reports: A 19-year-old was charged with illegally hacking into student Google Classroom accounts to post racist and homophobic photos, videos and comments in classes at his former high school, authorities announced Thursday. Aaron Ketelaar allegedly hacked into several accounts at Villa Park High School on Dec. 18, 2020, and posted racist photos and comments…
US schools leaked 28.6 million records in 1,851 data breaches since 2005
Sam Cook reports: Since 2005, K–12 school districts and colleges/universities across the US have experienced over 1,850 data breaches, affecting more than 28.6 million records. Our team of researchers analyzed data over the past 15 years to find out where the hot spots are, the biggest causes of these breaches, and how many students have…