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Some former employees of Granite School District in Utah are reporting frustration and anger with the district’s incident response to an attack by the Rhysida group. One has written up what he found when he examined the publicly leaked data. On S… Continue reading Granite School District breach worse than the district has revealed — former employee
Anna Merod reports: Dive Brief: Minnesota public school districts, charter schools and colleges must now report cybersecurity incidents such as ransomware or network attacks under a newly enacted state law. The information that schools report to Minnes… Continue reading Minnesota schools must report cybersecurity incidents under new law
A financial penalty of $10,000 was imposed and directions were issued to HMI Institute of Health Science for failing to put in place reasonable security arrangements to protect the personal data of former students. Case No. DP-2405-C2321 HMI Institute … Continue reading PDPC: Breach of the Protection Obligation by HMI Institute of Health Science
Joshua Irvine reports: The business manager of Grand Forks Public Schools said Monday the $2.2 million swindled from the district earlier this year was taken in a phishing scheme. […] In the four days leading up to the Sept. 13 fraud event, the d… Continue reading Grand Forks Public Schools Loses $2.2M to Phishing Scam
Tina Kelley reports: A Cherry Hill resident has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate the Cherry Hill School District for releasing the names of dozens of students whose families opted them out of sex education classes. The breach came … Continue reading N.J. school accidentally released names of kids who opted out of sex education
Kara Arundel reports: … Ransomware — where threat actors use malware to block access to network systems and then demand payment to unlock it — has been ballooning in the K-12 sector over the last seven years, according to the K12 Security Informa… Continue reading School ransomware attacks are on the rise. What can districts do?
Brandi Vesco reports: The K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX) has updated its cybersecurity recommendations for the 2024-25 school year to keep pace with evolving cybersecurity best practices, such as the need for multifactor authentication (MF… Continue reading K12 SIX Releases Updated Framework for School Cybersecurity
Click2Houston reports: A 18-year-old student at Klein Forest High School is currently wanted by police after they say he was responsible for cyber attacks that disrupted STAAR testing for thousands of students in the district. Keontra Lamont Kenemore i… Continue reading Klein ISD student accused of orchestrating cyber attack that disrupted STAAR testing
NJ 101.5 FM reports: A Monmouth County school district hid details about a cyber-attack for over a year. Only now are they revealing student’s sensitive personal data was compromised. Officials at Shore Regional High School District in West Long … Continue reading More than one year later, New Jersey school district reveals data breach with sensitive info
YLE News reports: The perpetrator of a major hacking of the City of Helsinki’s education division’s database could have accessed the personal information of all compulsory school aged children in the capital, as well as their parents or gua… Continue reading Fi: Hacker could have personal information of every schoolkid in Helsinki, City says