K–12 districts, higher education, and community colleges. We cover closures, remote learning disruptions, SIS and E-Rate impacts, and breaches of student records. Vendor incidents land here when they disrupt teaching, learning, or campus operations.
Kearney Public Schools said its network was compromised by a cyberattack discovered Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, in Kearney, Nebraska. District officials said Sunday, Oct. 12, that phones, email and other
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investigating a cybersecurity breach at Moscow School District 281, Superintendent Shawn Tiegs said. The inquiry follows an “intrusion” into the district’s
Finalsite, a school communications vendor based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, is experiencing a multi-day outage that has disrupted mass notifications for districts in several states, including Memphis-Shelby County Schools in Memphis,
Halifax County Public Schools said it is investigating a cyber incident first identified by its IT team and has shut down some systems, including internet access at school facilities, as
The Burrillville School Department said it is investigating a “cybersecurity event” that occurred in the early morning of Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. Officials said they took immediate action, engaged law
South Lyon Community School District said a “security incident” caused a network outage that shut parts of its systems, closing schools Monday, Sept. 15, 2025, and again Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said ransomware was detected on district servers and will close all campuses Sept. 15-18 while investigators assess damage and restore systems. The district, in Uvalde,
Mecklenburg County Public Schools notified families Sept. 3 that a cybersecurity incident forced the division to impose a “technology lockdown,” taking systems offline while outside experts and law enforcement investigate.
The University of St. Thomas took several systems offline on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, after an unauthorized party attempted to access campus servers, according to the Houston Chronicle. Students were
School officials reported that Ridgefield Public Schools’ network, located in Ridgefield, Connecticut, was taken offline on July 24 after cybersecurity tools detected an attempted ransomware attack targeting the district'
A cybersecurity incident has disabled phone and internet services across the Fort Smith Public Schools in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The disruption was first reported on July 21, 2025, through the
Columbia University in New York City experienced a significant IT outage on the morning of June 24, 2025, that disrupted student services including email and learning platforms. The outage began
