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Ca: Boy hacked into Catholic school board’s computer

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Dissent

Another Canadian school has been caught with its security pants down, it seems, after some security protections were not reactivated following a server upgrade. Kennedy Gordon reports:

The Catholic school board took action after learning a young hacker had accessed confidential records — action due in part to the boy’s parents.

John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, said the Grade 8 pupil at St. Anne’s School on Bellevue St. in the city’s north end found his way — via his laptop, a piece of downloaded software and the board’s internal network — into a board file server containing provincewide test results.

Read more on the Peterborough Examiner. The incident was reported to parents and to Ontario’s privacy commissioner.

Category: Breach IncidentsEducation SectorNon-U.S.Unauthorized Access

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