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Bully 4 U: Victims’, perpetrators’ names exposed in Western Albemarle data breach

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Dissent

Schilling Show reports:

The results of an annual school survey administered by Western Albemarle High School (WAHS) were inadvertently exposed to the public in a serious breach of security and student privacy protocol.

In a post-breach letter to parents, WAHS principal, Darah Bonham, explained that the school’s Peer Nomination Survey “asks students to identify peers who either have been victims of bullying or have been responsible for bullying others.”

Bonham continued by revealing that a change to the survey exposed presumed confidential names of students listed on the survey:

Read more on Schilling Show.

h/t, @K12CyberMap

Category: Education SectorExposureU.S.

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