Data breach and data leak news from educational facilities.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
The education sector continues to be a soft target for threat actors. The Record reports: The Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences announced on Monday it was targeted by “a serious hacker attack” that has led to a total shutdown of its IT systems. It is the latest in a string of disruptive cyber incidents to […]
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 […]
The figures for the MOVEit data breach continue to rise to alarming heights. The Record reports: The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) reported that nearly 900 colleges and universities across the U.S. had data stolen during attacks by a Russia-based ransomware gang exploiting the popular MOVEit file-sharing tool. The nonprofit manages educational reporting, data exchange, verification, […]
When New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement with Marymount Manhattan College stemming from a data breach in 2021, some people discussing the case online were surprised that a state could go after a non-profit college that way, and they wondered if the state could get that kind of settlement with a […]
