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University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info
Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal information of staff and students.
- December 18, 2025
- 03:22 PM
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FTC settlement requires Illuminate to delete unnecessary student data
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.
- December 02, 2025
- 03:50 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Microsoft: New policy removes pre-installed Microsoft Store apps
Microsoft now allows IT administrators to remove pre-installed Microsoft Store apps (also known as in-box apps) using a new app management policy.
- October 27, 2025
- 11:13 AM
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Texas sues PowerSchool over breach exposing 62M students, 880k Texans
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against education software company PowerSchool, which suffered a massive data breach in December that exposed the personal information of 62 million students, including over 880,000 Texans.
- September 04, 2025
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ChatGPT can now create flashcards quiz on any topic
If you use ChatGPT to learn new topics, you might want to try its new flashcard-based quiz feature, which can help you evaluate your progress.
- August 31, 2025
- 08:30 AM
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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT's new study feature, helps with exams
OpenAI is testing a new 'Study together' feature, and today, a new announcement within the ChatGPT web app confirms it.
- July 23, 2025
- 10:08 AM
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Ex-student charged over hacking university for cheap parking, data breaches
New South Wales police in Australia have arrested a 27-year-old former Western Sydney University (WSU) student for allegedly hacking into the University's systems on multiple occasions, starting with a scheme to obtain cheaper parking.
- June 26, 2025
- 12:24 PM
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Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data
Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned.
- May 08, 2025
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Western Sydney University discloses security breaches, data leak
Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community.
- April 11, 2025
- 12:29 PM
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PowerSchool previously hacked in August, months before data breach
PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier, in August, and then again in September.
- March 11, 2025
- 09:42 AM
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PowerSchool starts notifying victims of massive data breach
Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack.
- January 28, 2025
- 10:43 AM
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Highline Public Schools confirms ransomware behind shutdown
On Thursday, K-12 school district Highline Public Schools confirmed that a ransomware attack forced it to shut down all schools in early September.
- October 04, 2024
- 04:32 PM
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Highline Public Schools closes schools following cyberattack
Highline Public Schools, a K-12 district in Washington state, has shut down all schools and canceled school activities after its technology systems were compromised in a cyberattack.
- September 09, 2024
- 03:06 PM
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Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform
A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student's iPads and Chromebooks.
- August 06, 2024
- 10:15 AM
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Toronto District School Board hit by a ransomware attack
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed.
- June 13, 2024
- 02:43 PM
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New Fog ransomware targets US education sector via breached VPNs
A new ransomware operation named 'Fog' launched in early May 2024, is using compromised VPN credentials to breach the networks of educational organizations in the U.S.
- June 06, 2024
- 02:29 PM
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Free Piano phish targets American university students, staff
A large-scale phishing campaign is using an unusual lure to earn at least $900,000 by tricking email recipients into believing they're about to receive a baby grand piano for free.
- May 29, 2024
- 02:14 PM
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Western Sydney University data breach exposed student data
Western Sydney University (WSU) has notified students and academic staff about a data breach after threat actors breached its Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint environment.
- May 21, 2024
- 03:39 PM
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Helsinki suffers data breach after hackers exploit unpatched flaw
The City of Helsinki is investigating a data breach in its education division, which it discovered in late April 2024, impacting tens of thousands of students, guardians, and personnel.
- May 13, 2024
- 11:17 AM
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University System of Georgia: 800K exposed in 2023 MOVEit attack
The University System of Georgia (USG) is sending data breach notifications to 800,000 individuals whose data was exposed in the 2023 Clop MOVEit attacks.
- May 08, 2024
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