Tony Keith reports: A news release issued by the Colorado Department of Higher Education is notifying the public of a “data incident.” KKTV 11 News is working to learn more about the situation, but the release reads as follows: The Colorado Department of Higher Education (“CDHE”) is providing notice of a cybersecurity incident that may…
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School Accreditation Organization Data Breach Exposed Sensitive Information on Students, Parents, and Teachers Online
Seen on WebsitePlanet: Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to WebsitePlanet a non-password protected database that contained 680k records. Upon further investigation, it was identified that these records were related to educational institutions. Documents inside the database suggested that it belonged to the Southern Association of Independent Schools, Inc (SAIS). In my many years as…
Hobbs has questions about data breach that exposed ESA student info
Gloria Rebecca Gomez reports: A data breach exposed the personal information of thousands of Arizona students enrolled in the state’s school voucher program, according to Gov. Katie Hobbs, but the state’s top education official says it’s not a problem. Earlier this month, ClassWallet, the online financial administration platform that handles payments for Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship…
Hawaiʻi Community College pays ransom to attackers
Law enforcement and experienced ransomware professionals generally advise victims not to pay any ransom demands. Yet the University of Hawaiʻi Community College decided that they would pay following an attack that they first disclosed on June 13. So why did they make that decision? In a statement on their website this week, they explain: After…
Recent NYS audits of K-12 school districts’ infosecurity
A toot by Doug Levin yesterday reminded me that I haven’t posted NYS Comptroller audits of school districts in a while. So here are three to get caught up: Jericho Union Free School District – Acceptable Use Policy (2022M-194) Issued Date: July 21, 2023 Audit Objective Determine whether Jericho Union Free School District (District) officials…
Umbreon Unplugged: Unraveling the Sequel to Failures
On June 23, DataBreaches published the first of a series of interviews with Pepijn Van der Stap, aka “Umbreon.” Van der Stap, 21, was arrested in January and remains in detention, awaiting trial on charges that include hacking, data exfiltration, extortion, sale of stolen data, and money laundering. At the end of the first article,…