Shannon Moudy reports: Some systems are offline Monday after Spokane Public Schools says it experienced an overnight ‘network security incident.’ In an email sent to families Monday, the district says the situation is being investigated. “Out of an abundance of caution, we have chosen to take several of our systems offline. As a result, families...

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Emma Kirk reports: A school in Perth’s north has been targeted in a cyber attack, with hackers stealing students and families’ personal information. St James Anglican School, in Perth’s north, identified a cyber breach involving unauthorised access into its computer systems. Parents were advised the school immediately contained the cyber security incident and secured its...

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Joseph Topping reports an incident at the School District of Monroe in Wisconsin has resulted in the district pulling the plug on internet connections: Students powered down computers, school phone service failed and a scheduled ACT session was canceled after a possible network security issue disrupted the School District of Monroe in Wisconsin. Classes continued...

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Urijah Jaushlin reports: Two Lamesa ISD employees were arrested in connection with a law enforcement investigation involving allegations of a breach of computer security, according to a press release by the Lamesa Independent School District Friday morning. The Lamesa Police Department announced in a press release that authorities, along with the Texas Rangers, arrested 54-year-old...

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DysruptionHub reports: A cyberattack forced Salida School District in Colorado to shut down its network June 29, damaging locally stored files and disrupting administrative operations, the district said. The attack began about 6:30 a.m. and was detected two hours later, according to a July 2 district notice. Officials took all systems offline and brought in specialists...

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Joseph Topping reports: Westfield Public Schools in New Jersey kept classrooms open during a districtwide network outage that disrupted communications and digital instruction throughout the first week of school. The district initially attributed the outage to equipment failure. “We have confirmed that a networking hardware failure caused the disruption across all district schools and offices,”...

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Carolyn Rodriguez reports: Springfield Public Schools will be closed Tuesday after a cyber incident disrupted systems necessary for essential school operations, Superintendent Dr. Sonia Dinnall announced Monday. According to the district, the closure will help the district continue its response efforts while investigators assess the extent of the incident. “We understand that an unexpected closure...

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Ashish Khaitan reports: The Mathspace data breach has affected 1,079,819 people in Australia and New Zealand after unauthorized parties accessed an internal reporting system and downloaded user information. Mathspace confirmed the security incident on September 3, 2026, and said the affected records involve students, parents or guardians, teachers, and Mathspace staff. The company said names,...

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Kumar Sokka reports: At many institutions, the student ID number exposed in a data breach is the same number that unlocks dorm doors, sits behind classroom badge readers, controls laboratory access, and authenticates into building automation systems. The badge in a student’s wallet is keyed to that database. When that database is compromised, every physical...

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André Salkin reports:  The Santa Fe school board approved a new cybersecurity policy this week but delayed a vote on a separate policy governing student data privacy, with most board members calling it too broad and too important to rush through. The delayed measure, Draft Policy 357, would govern how the district treats student data...

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Joy Agwunobi reports: Cybercriminals are ramping up preparations for the new academic year by creating thousands of education-themed websites and phishing campaigns designed to steal personal and financial information from students, parents and educators, as the education sector remains the world’s most targeted industry for cyberattacks. New research by Check Point Research, the threat intelligence...

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Sharman Gill reports: …  BYU research finds that EdTech vendors don’t always meet their student privacy obligations; that research has led to new Utah legislation that tightens up the privacy issues. In an August 2025 investigation report prepared for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE), BYU information systems professors Mark Keith and Justin Giboney found major...

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Hyeon Ye-Seul reports: Personal information belonging to roughly 180,000 students, alumni and staff at Sogang University was exposed in a cyberattack, the university said Saturday. The university said it had confirmed signs that some data tied to its integrated login accounts had been leaked following an attack by an unidentified outside party. Sogang posted an...

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A recent report claims ransomware attacks on K-12 are down for the first half of 2026, while another news story’s headline today claims schools are becoming a new cybersecurity battleground. New? We don’t think it’s new. But the education sector has long been characterized as providing low-hanging fruit for criminals, and recent attacks on edtech...

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Alcino Donadel reports: …. Instructure, the edtech company behind learning management system Canvas, suffered one of the largest data breaches in the U.S. this year after cybercriminals gained access through a third-party vendor—an increasingly common occurrence in higher ed. Higher education’s more meditative, governed approach to technological change is useful for reviewing rigor and long-term quality assurance, Pendleton...

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Abbey Nutter reports: Sumner County Schools is still working through a reported network breach that forced the district to delay the start of the 2026-27 school year, officials told Main Street Media. The district reported the data breach during a meeting of the Sumner County Board of Education on July 21, one day after the...

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DysruptionHub reports: A suspected cyberattack disrupted work email, internet access, Google Drive and other applications at Oceanside Unified School District in California as officials investigated and worked to restore service. The district confirmed a computer network disruption but did not identify its cause. NC Pipeline reported that a separate district text described the incident as a cyberattack....

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Three times may be a charm for some things, but not for data security incidents. Frontier Airlines allegedly has had a third data security incident this year. First, it was BobDaHacker publishing a blog post on June 16 titled “Your Boarding Pass Is a Skeleton Key.” Frontier Airlines Doesn’t Care. According to the post, Frontier...

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Previous reporting about the Navigate360 breach focused on tips submitted by students, teachers, and parents. In this article, we focus on tips submitted to Crime Stoppers and law enforcement-related programs that use Navigate360’s software. Links to previous articles on this breach are at the end of this article.  Background In 1976, an Albuquerque detective had...

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