TX: Herff Jones data breach leaves students’ bank information compromised

May 12, 2021
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Haya Panjwani reports: A data breach at UH graduation cap and gown vendor, Herff Jones, has some students’ bank information compromised. Mariah Ochoa, a psychology senior, tweeted about her debit card information being stolen on Sunday, and received numerous replies of students having similar experiences. “I ordered my cap and gown back in...

Now ransomware is inundating public school systems

May 11, 2021
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Robert R. Ackerman Jr. reports: Almost every American adult knows that cyberattacks and breaches are ubiquitous and have primarily targeted companies and government entities. They might even know that the single most common breach these days is ransomware, a malicious process by which hackers dismantle computer systems and don’t fix them until a ransom...

Data from Indiana and Oregon school districts dumped by ransomware threat actors

May 11, 2021
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This week, two sets of threat actors dumped data from K-12 school districts in Indiana and Oregon. Both districts had disclosed ransomware incidents in April. Logansport Community School Corp On April 27, Logansport Community School in Indiana reported that they were investigating how their network had been compromised by hackers on April 11. At...

Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute disclose ransomware incidents

May 9, 2021
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No sector has been spared from ransomware incidents. In this report, we have one from the education sector and one from the government sector. Neither report specifies what type of ransomware or who the threat actors are. And neither one reports how much ransom has been demanded or whether the victim is refusing to...

Cyber criminals potentially accessed data of 10,000 people in Brevard School Board breach

May 7, 2021
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Bailey Gallion reports: Cyber criminals accessed the identifying information of about 10,000 people last year through the email accounts of 12 Brevard County School Board employees, a school district spokesperson said Friday. The School Board became aware of strange activity in its systems on Oct. 31, 2020, and on Jan. 4 determined that someone...

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TX: Herff Jones data breach leaves students’ bank information compromised

Now ransomware is inundating public school systems

Data from Indiana and Oregon school districts dumped by ransomware threat actors

Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute disclose ransomware incidents

Cyber criminals potentially accessed data of 10,000 people in Brevard School Board breach