Jonah Meadows reports: Evanston Township High School officials got scammed out of more than $48,000 during a monthslong data breach that also exposed the personal information of more than 1,100 Illinois residents, Patch has learned. The fraudulent payment was reported to Evanston police, and the data breach was disclosed to the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,…
Category: Education Sector
Ransomware attack shuts down Lewis & Clark Community College
Russell Kinsaul reports: Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey closed all their campuses this week and cancelled all extra-curricular activities, including sports. The move was made after the director of information technology noticed suspicious activity last Tuesday and shut down the school’s computer network on Wednesday. According to college president, Ken Trzaska, hackers got…
Montana high school hit by ransomware
Another day, another attack on public schools to report. Today’s report concerns Beaverhead County High School in Montana, which was reportedly hit by Avos Locker. The threat actors added the listing to their dark web leak site on November 20, but do not state when the attack actually occurred. As proof of claim, Avos Locker…
DeKalb County School District virtual meeting hacked with obscene images
This week’s reminder to use secured Zoom accounts and not personal unsecured ones.
Lakeside School breach — what happened?
On November 3, Lakeside School provided a notification to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office about a data breach. Lakeside School is a private school for grades 5-12 in the Seattle, Washington area. Because Massachusetts does not require inclusion of the kinds of details this site reports, we have almost no information on this breach other…
NJ: Spotswood Public Schools notifying 424 employees impacted by a ransomware incident
Here’s another k-12 data security incident that does not appear to have made news or to have been revealed on a school district’s website (at least as far as DataBreaches.net can determine): On behalf of Spotswood Public Schools in New Jersey, Baker & Hostetler notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that Spotswood experienced a ransomware…