Shanthi S reports on another big breach out of India. This one involves an EdTech firm that provides online tutorials. Bengaluru-based edtech startup Vedantu has confirmed that it faced a data breach in the last week of September. Data of 687K Vedantu customers were put at risk as the data breach allegedly exposed customer details…
Category: Education Sector
Florida Virtual School needs new board, new ethics standards, state education department says
Beth Kassab and Leslie Postal report: The troubled Florida Virtual School should get a new governor-appointed board, new ethics standards for employees and a new inspector general inside the school to oversee internal audits and investigations, according to a report released Friday by the Florida Department of Education. And some of the criticism relates to…
Update: One or more Paterson students were allegedly responsible for district data breach
Jayed Rahman provides an update to a breach previously covered on DataBreaches.net: One or more students were allegedly responsible for the massive data breach that struck the district late last year, according to sources briefed on a preliminary investigation conducted by a firm contracted by the district. Superintendent Eileen Shafer’s administration won’t make the findings…
Louisiana releases details of summer school system hacking
KATC reports that the Governor’s office has released a follow-up on a ransomware attack that hit five school districts in July. The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) today released details about this summer’s cyber attack on Louisiana school systems. As we reported this summer , several school systems were offline after a…
Southeast Missouri State University email gaffe breaches privacy
Zach Tate reports in the student newspaper of Southeast Missouri State University: On Oct. 4, an email including information from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences leaked private information about students, faculty and staff members to approximately 50 Southeast communication students. The email was sent with personally identifiable information (PII) to the communication students…
NYS Comptroller releases IT audit of True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School
One day, I’ll read an IT audit from NYS Comptroller DiNapoli and will smile at the good report. Today is not that day, however. The following is a summary of the audit of of True North Rochester Preparatory Charter School. According to the state, “the School’s IT network and assets are managed by an IT…