A Vice Society nyilvánosságra hozta az Egyesült Királyság 14 iskolájából ellopott információkat, beleértve az útlevél-leolvasásokat is

Another month, another release of personal information stolen from a school system. This time, it’s a group of 14 schools in the United Kingdom.

Once again, the perpetrator appears to be Vice Society, which is jól ismert for targeting educational systems in the US. As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) pointed out in a bulletin from Szeptember 6, “K-12 institutions may be seen as particularly lucrative targets due to the amount of sensitive student data accessible through school systems or their managed service providers.”

A UK hack may have turned up even more confidential information than the Los Angeles school system breach last year. As the Jelentette a BBC on Jan. 6, “One folder marked ‘passports’ contains passport scans for pupils and parents on school trips going back to 2011, whereas another marked ‘contract’ contains contractual offers made to staff alongside teaching documents on muscle contractions.”

Some prominent school cyberattacks in the US include public school districts in Chicago, Baltimoreés Los Angeles. A new study from digital learning platform Clever claims that one in four schools experienced a cyber-incident over the past year, and according to a új jelentés from security software vendor Emsisoft, at least 45 school districts and 44 higher learning institutions suffered ransomware támadások 2022-ben.

“Schools are an attractive target as they are typically data-rich and resource-poor,” Karen Sorady, vice president of member engagement at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), told Michigan Live in November, after a K-12 school district in Jackson, Mich., was hit. “Without proper resources in terms of dedicated staffing and the necessary tools and training to protect against cyber-attacks, schools can be a soft target.”

Many of the 14 schools hit by this latest leak are colleges and universities, but primary and secondary schools were also hit, according to the BBC’s list.