Howard Buck reports: Vancouver Public Schools said on Monday it had discovered a “security breach” in its payroll data system that threatens the release of district employees’ personal information, such as names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Also, the banking account numbers of employees who use direct deposit “have been compromised,” the district said…
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(follow-up) District Data Breach Leads to Prison Time
Dian Schaffhauser reports: A Washington State man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 31 counts of criminal activity, most related to a school district data breach. Christopher Berge, now 21, was a student at Mountain View High School in Evergreen Public Schools when he “shoulder surfed”–physically observed–a password used…
WA: Fraud ‘hits’ follow local data breach (updated)
As an update on a story posted here yesterday, Howard Buck reports that over 3,000 employees were affected by the breach of Vancouver Public Schools, and that: Already, several Vancouver district employees have reported “hits” of suspicious personal banking account activity after their financial institutions were alerted to possible fraud, by the district or by…
(Follow-up) Officials: Ex-Student Broke Into District Data
As a follow-up to a breach originally covered here in November, KPTV now reports: A former student was behind a data security breach that compromised the personal information of more than 5,000 current and former Vancouver School District workers, officials said Thursday. Christopher Berge, who attended Evergreen Public Schools, pleaded guilty to 30 different counts…