Brandon Raines reports: George County Schools are the latest to be hit by a cybersecurity attack. The George County School District identified suspicious activity that disrupted their computer systems on June 8. Officials imminently contacted cybersecurity experts to conduct an independent investigation to fix any problems and determine if any information had been accessed...
The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) has suffered a cybersecurity breach that has caused school closures for the past two days. The incident was first announced on June 15 as an “IT outage:” 6/15/2021 8:25 AM EDT UMass Lowell, including the Haverhill campus, is closed on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 due to an...
On June 1, DataBreaches.net reported that DoppelPaymer threat actors had apparently attacked Union Community School District in Iowa and exfiltrated data about employees and students. Neither the district’s superintendent nor any board of education members had responded to this site’s inquiries about whether there had been any public disclosure of the breach that occurred...
Lillian Reed reports: Baltimore County school officials estimate the ransomware attack in November will cost the system at least $7.7 million, nearing what Baltimore City spent following a similar attack in 2019. The estimated costs cover a wide range of programs, services, trainings and licenses that helped Maryland’s third-largest school system respond to and...
NYS Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audit of East Syracuse-Minoa Central School District – Information Technology (Onondaga County and Madison County)