Jeff Outhit reports:
Police are investigating after a student hacked an internal computer system at a Kitchener high school, forcing other students to consider changing all their social media passwords.
This includes passwords for Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, and other personal accounts held by any student who has accessed those personal accounts from a school desktop computer.
Eastwood Collegiate Institute principal Jeff Klinck sent a letter home to parents to explain the online security breach.
Read more on The Record.
I find the specific wording of the warning to students very concerning.
Why would they suggest changing accounts to third-party services like Facebook unless they were capturing credentials.
If they want to warn students about the same passwords, they should be specific and inform them that if they used the same or similar password on other sites it should be changed.
The way I read that is that in gaining access to their student account they could also capture their social media credentials, maybe if they were saved in the browser?
Could be. I found reporting a bit puzzling on some details.