Education Sector, Commentaries and Analyses, Data Breach News
September 15, 2025
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Watchdog warns of ‘insider threat’ of students launching cyberattacks on their schools

Public Technology reports: The UK’s data-protection watchdog has warned of a growing trend of cyberattacks on schools being perpetrated by pupils. The Information Commissioner’s Office recently analysed the details of 215 data breaches that took place across the education sector between January 2022 and August 2024 and were classified as “insider attacks”. Almost three in […]

Vendor News, Data Breach News, Education Sector
August 10, 2025
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Kokomo24/7, a Vendor for the Los Angeles Unified School District Hit by a Cyber Attack, Network Files Likely Compromised

TechNadu reports: A vendor that serves the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kokomo24/7, has notified authorities about a network file exposure on its internal systems and data storage environment. Investigators determined that the suspicious activity discovered on December 11, 2024, allowed cybercriminals to access sensitive personal information. Since Kokomo24/7 is a vendor for the Los Angeles Unified […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Vendor News
June 13, 2025
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School Districts Unaware BoardDocs Software Published Their Private Files

Company said it notified customers nationwide after a tech glitch exposed confidential data, but multiple districts said they knew nothing about it. The 74 reports that although Diligent Corporation claims they notified all BoardDocs clients of a recently discovered data leak, many school districts had no awareness of any incident until The 74 contacted them. […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware
May 22, 2025
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Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

The Register reports: Scotland’s West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier this month. The local authority, governing a region bordering Edinburgh, originally said that there was no evidence to suggest that data had been taken when it first […]

Data Breach News, Education Sector, News, Vendor News
May 21, 2025
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Massachusetts student pleads guilty to hacking and extorting PowerSchool and an unnamed telecom

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced yesterday that  Matthew D. Lane, 19, a student at Assumption University in Worcester, Mass., was charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with hacking into the computer networks of two U.S.-based companies and extorting the companies for ransoms. The two companies were not named in the Information […]

Legal News, Data Breach News, Education Sector
March 21, 2025
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$9.95M National Student Clearinghouse data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: National Student Clearinghouse agreed to a $9.95 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that it failed to protect consumers from a 2023 MOVEit data breach. The National Student Clearinghouse settlement benefits individuals whose Social Security numbers were included in the files affected by the MOVEit data breach between May […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News
March 21, 2025
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Former University of Michigan football coach indicted for hacking accounts, downloading ‘intimate’ photos

ABC News reports: The former co-offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan’s football team has been charged with hacking into thousands of athlete and alumni accounts and downloading private data, including “intimate” photos, over an eight-year span, according to federal investigators. Matthew Weiss, 42, who was also the team’s quarterbacks coach, allegedly gained unauthorized access […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News
January 24, 2025
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PowerSchool data breach a ‘statewide issue,’ more than 300,000 teachers had SS number exposed

On December 28, PowerSchool discovered that its Student Information System (SIS) program had been compromised. Since then, more and more schools in the U.S. and Canada have been notifying parents and students that student information stored in the system — including a lot of historical data on former students — was involved in the breach. […]

Data Breach News, Education Sector
November 03, 2023
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Virginia’s Fairfax Schools Expose Thousands of Sensitive Student Records

Human error was responsible for yet another breach of sensitive information. The74 reports: Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools disclosed tens of thousands of sensitive, confidential student records, apparently by accident, to a parent advocate who has been an outspoken critic of its data privacy record.   The documents identify current and former special education students by […]