When reviews of data breaches in the education sector are written for 2023, they will almost certainly mention the 2022 attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District that wasn’t fully disclosed until 2023 and the Minneapolis Public Schools breach. Both of those incidents involved threat actors leaking sensitive information on students. But any 2023…
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The U.S. And Its Allies Are Pledging Never To Pay Hacker Ransoms
Eric Geller reports: The Biden administration and dozens of foreign allies will pledge this week never to pay ransoms to hackers who lock up their national governments’ computer systems, hoping to discourage financially motivated cyber criminals from seeing those systems as attractive ransomware targets. The joint promise will occur as part of the third annual…
Hackers escalate: leak 200k CCSD students’ data; claim to still have access to CCSD email system
Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada informed parents and employees that they became aware of a “cybersecurity incident” on October 5. Three weeks later, the district had not fully recovered from the attack and parents were complaining about the district’s lack of transparency about what was stolen in the breach. Disturbingly, while the district…
MO: ‘Cyber attack’ hits Reeds Spring schools. Data breach includes Social Security numbers
Claudette Riley reports: The Reeds Spring school district has notified employees and families that it was the “victim of a sophisticated cyber attack” that involved the unauthorized access — and acquisition — of district and personal data. They were told that names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information and even class lists may have…
Detroit-Area District Cancels Classes Due to Cyber Incident
Jim Kasuba reports: A cybersecurity threat resulted in the shutdown of all Allen Park Public Schools classes on Monday. John Tafelski, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, sent a letter to members of the school community on Sunday stating that the school district recently discovered a cybersecurity incident that affected some of its systems. Read…
Exclusive: Clark County School District student data begins to leak; CCSD doesn’t comment
Tiffany Lane reports: Problems continue for Clark County School District families and staff about a week and a half after being notified of a cyber security incident that happened earlier this month. Some parents say they received an email Wednesday with private information about their children. While they do not know if it is related to the…