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On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education—in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—held the kickoff meeting of the Education Facilities Subsector Government Coordinating Council (GCC), designed to facil… Continue reading K12 SIX Applauds Launch of K-12 Education Cybersecurity Council
J.P. Isbell reports: The students who go to Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) will have an extra day (or two) to celebrate spring break – but not for a good reason. And it’s no joke, even though it’s April Fools’ Day soon. Phone calls and email… Continue reading TCAPS Hacked? School Cancelled on Monday for Students at Traverse City Area Public Schools
Maraya King reports: South St. Paul Public Schools alerted families this week to an ongoing technology disruption that is being investigated. Staff and families were notified Monday of technical difficulties “that may disrupt certain services” like onl… Continue reading South St. Paul Public Schools investigating potential cybersecurity threat
From the good folks at EPIC.org: On February 27, EPIC filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission supporting the FCC’s proposal to use funds from its E-Rate program to support strengthening cybersecurity at schools and libraries, as… Continue reading EPIC Emphasizes That FCC Pilot Program Protect Student Privacy, Not Just School Cybersecurity
Craig Schneider reports: Long Island schools saw a big increase in the number of reported computer hacks and other cyber incidents in 2023 compared to the prior year, and human error continued to be a major cause of exposing sensitive student informati… Continue reading School cyber incidents on Long Island: Reported cases rose sharply in 2023
In August 2023, Prince George’s County Public Schools disclosed a cyberattack. At the time, they reported that “an estimated 4,500 user accounts out of 180,000 were impacted, primarily staff accounts. The school system is still assessing the full… Continue reading Updating: Prince George’s County Public Schools breach affected almost 100,000
Schools Week reports: The information watchdog is investigating reports of a data breach on the Class Charts behaviour management platform, which is used by tens of thousands of teachers. Some parents logging on to Class Charts last week were reportedl… Continue reading Reports of data breach on Class Charts platform
Kimberly Drelich reports: Groton Public Schools experienced a district-wide internet outage on Thursday that is under investigation. “Groton Public Schools was a victim of a cyber-attack on our main servers,” Clint Kennedy, the school distr… Continue reading CT: Groton schools’ internet outage from ‘cyber-attack’ under investigation
Fox4Beaumont reports: The Beaumont ISD phone system is now back online with a new vendor following a nationwide ransomware attack on January 23 that impacted the district’s entire phone system, according to information Jackie Simien, BISD’s… Continue reading Tx: BISD phone system now back online with new vendor following ransomware attack
Hope Dean reports: At least one student is believed to have hacked into some of Fulton County Schools’ information technology (IT) systems, the district announced Wednesday. The breach involved one or more students from FCS Innovation Academy, a STEM-f… Continue reading GA: Students hack into Fulton County Schools IT systems, district says