Rachel Sawicki reports: The honors email list for the class of 2022 and 2023 was hacked last week, and the email chain of replies, containing an offensive meme, may have consequences for the student who sent it. Michael Chajes, director of the university Honors Program, said that no personal information was compromised and...
Deni Kamper reports: About a dozen Spencer County High School students have been disciplined after one student admitted to hacking into an online learning program. Principal Stephen Webb said about three weeks ago, an English teacher noticed irregularities in some students’ scores on the Reading Plus program. The program assesses reading proficiency and designs...
Sarra Sundstrom reports: Handshake, the university’s job search platform, experienced a security incident last week that directly affected over 8,000 students and alumni. On Feb. 13, a number of students received a security alert from the university’s Career Center that an unknown party posing as a company on Handshake accessed student resumes. Resumes of...
Parvathi Benu Students at IIT Madras, the top-ranked institution in the country by the NIRF, are petrified that they have lost all their data, after a suspected ransomware attack on the institute’s internet and Command and Control servers since Wednesday. Even though the institute says that it has a back-up for everything on the...
Jacob Gallant reports: Jackson Public Schools is dealing with a network interaction after a recent cyber attack. School officials said in a statement that its information technology team, along with outside cyber-professionals, performed a full assessment of its computer system. They say student and employee information has not been compromised. Read more on WLBT. ...