Thousands of students, teachers and administrators had information stolen from the Baltimore City Public Schools system during a ransomware attack in February.
Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school districts using its PowerSchool SIS platform.
LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information – with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK
Districts store all kinds of sensitive student data, which means the consequences of a school cyberattack can follow pupils well into adulthood. And it's not just their credit that's at risk.
A total 761 people had sensitive personal data hacked during a cyberattack on the education department of the Swiss city of Basel.
Weeks after breach of college chain Atid servers, hacker group Sharp Boys puts stolen information up for sale and releases additional data of students; Atid: ‘These are Iranian hackers, and most of the materials are outdated’
A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
Public schools in two Michigan counties are reopening on Thursday after a ransomware attack crippled their ability to function and closed doors to students for three days.
All of the public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties announced their reopening on Thursday in letters to parents, assuring them that cybersecurity experts, tech officials and law enforcement worked around the clock to restore the systems following outages that began on Monday.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children.
An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading as Trustopia), an employment screening firm, to check whether people opening online gambling accounts were 18.
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
