Education Security
Breach Incidents
Essential Reading
Harris Federation Ransomware Attack 2021
Harris Federation: Vice Society ransomware took 50 schools offline simultaneously in April 2021 — one of the largest education sector ransomware incidents ever recorded in the UK.
Lincoln College Ransomware Attack
Lincoln College 2022: the first educational institution to permanently close partly as a result of a ransomware attack — a warning to financially pressured UK FE colleges.
Newcastle University DoppelPaymer Ransomware Attack 2020
Newcastle University 2020: DoppelPaymer ransomware — sensitive staff and student data published on dark web, weeks of system disruption at the start of the academic year.
MOVEit and Clop Ransomware
MOVEit/Clop 2023: hundreds of organisations globally had data exfiltrated via a trusted file transfer platform — multiple UK universities affected without being directly attacked.