Quinn Campbell reports on an email gaffe that disclosed student health information: The University of Lethbridge says an Excel document with personal information of 1,225 patients at its health centre was inadvertently shared with a student. The document that was the subject of a privacy breach included names, dates of birth, personal health numbers, genders…
Category: Education Sector
Revenge is mine, saith a hacker. No big deal, saith a researcher.
Vinny Troia, a self-described security researcher and and the owner of cybersecurity firms Night Lion Security and DataViper.io, will be the opening keynote speaker at SecureWorld’s virtual conference this coming Wednesday. He has promoted himself and his talk by claiming that he will reveal all of the identities of key members of thedarkoverlord, GnosticPlayers, and…
Lawsuit against Pearson over data breach scuttled by injury claims
Sara Merken reports: A Minnesota federal judge has granted a bid by subsidiaries of education company Pearson to dismiss a lawsuit brought over a data breach that resulted in the unauthorized access of personal information from 13,000 school and university accounts. Chief U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis on Monday found that a legal…
Complaint Against Delhi University VC Alleges Data Privacy Breach
The Quint reports: A complaint has been filed against the Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi (DU) over allegations of the varsity having leaked personal data of final-year students in admit cards issued ahead of the controversial online Open Book Examinations. The complaint, filed by former Delhi University Student’s Union President Arun Hooda at…
University of Michigan: Leaked emails, passwords were from ‘3rd-party data breaches’
Nisa Khan reports: University of Michigan students got a scare Friday night: warnings circulating on social media about an apparent data breach leaking their U-M email addresses and passwords. On Saturday, the University of Michigan released a statement saying the information was from older “third-party data breaches, such as Chegg, Zynga, LinkedIn” where users used their student emails to sign…
Serious data privacy breach at DU admit card 2020 download portal, students’ personal details available
Roshni Chakrabarty reports: Early on Thursday, two Twitter users pointed out the serious data privacy breach problems arising in the DU admit card 2020 download portal, which is part of the official Delhi University website. Anyone with the ‘gateway password’ can download the admit cards of all students in any Delhi University college. Read more…