Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Similar Cyber Incident Depicted in Fictional Hospital From HBO's 'The Pitt'All three dozen of the University of Mississippi Medical Center's healthcare clinics throughout the state remain closed and elective procedures are also still cancelled as Mississippi's only academic health science center continues to respond to a ransomware attack nearly a week later.

Health Info in Mix With Compromised Data in Latest Breach Hitting a SchoolA for-profit university with campuses in New York and the Caribbean is notifying nearly 321,000 individuals of a December 2024 data theft incident that compromised their personal and health information. Monroe University is among the latest educational institutions disclosing hacks.

Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton Students at a school in Warwickshire, England, have scored an extended Christmas break after a cyberattack crippled its IT systems, forcing classrooms to close and staff to summon government incident responders.…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing that education technology provider Illuminate Education to delete unnecessary student data and improve its security to settle allegations related to an incident in 2021 that exposed info of 10 million students. [...]

Central Jersey Medical Center Runs Health Centers for Schools in NewarkCentral Jersey Medical Center, a federally qualified health center that partners with public schools in Newark, New Jersey, is notifying an undisclosed number of people of a data breach related to an August ransomware attack. The incident is latest to hit a resourced-stretched healthcare provider.

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​Baltimore City Public Schools notified tens of thousands of employees and students of a data breach following an incident in February when unknown attackers hacked into its network. [...]

Highline Public Schools revealed that sensitive personal, financial and medical data was accessed by ransomware attackers during the September 2024 incident

SSNs, payment details, and health info too The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) says a July 2024 "security incident" exposed sensitive personal data on more than half a million individuals, including financial and health info.…

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. [...]

A survey by Ofqual found that 20% of English schools and colleges were unable to immediately recover after being hit by a cyber incident

Highline Public Schools in Washington State have now been closed for two days following the incident

Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus UK-based mobile device management vendor Mobile Guardian has admitted that on August 4 it suffered a security incident that involved unauthorized access to iOS and ChromeOS devices managed by its tools. In Singapore, the incident resulted in 13,000 devices being remotely wiped and saw the nation's Education Ministry cut ties with the vendor.…

Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people.…

Thousands of Students Forced to Stay Home Amid Cybersecurity IncidentA school district in Freehold Township, New Jersey was forced to close its schools and offices for thousands of students Monday after suffering a cybersecurity incident that caused technical difficulties across its network environment, administrators said.

Sunday night, Freehold Township district officials notified its staff and parents that school would not be in session Monday due to technical difficulties caused by a cyber incident.

National Student Clearinghouse reveals more details of incident

Last week, the department uncovered a data breach that occurred back in June stemming from what it deems to be a cybersecurity ransomware incident.

Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa's largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. [...]

Organizations rely on Incident response to ensure they are immediately aware of security incidents, allowing for quick action to minimize damage. They also aim to avoid follow on attacks or future related incidents