Allan Cunningham, the information-security officer for Washoe County School District in Nevada, said he learned from Pearson that the breach affected data of 114,000 students enrolled between 2001 and 2016 in his jurisdiction alone.

The district released a statement on Monday saying that over the weekend, they experienced “an event” related to the computer network and system.

A State of Emergency has been issued by Governor John Bel Edwards regarding cybersecurity. This ongoing cybersecurity attack has effected multiple local government agencies– including Monroe schools and the Morehouse Parish School District.

More than 100,000 former University of WA students were today alerted their personal data may have been compromised after thieves stole 20 laptops from an administration building.

The New Haven Public School district recently was hit by a ransomware attack, an official confirmed Wednesday.

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is currently investigating a possible data breach of a 3rd party vendor, that potentially has exposed personal information of thousands of public school students across Tennessee.

Hackers are breaching college networks and creating fake accounts that are used "almost immediately for criminal activity."

Cybercriminals hit Midlands Technical College computers Wednesday. They inserted a virus that could have affected the entire college system. Officials shut down the system to prevent the virus from being spread.