Rachel Smith reports: Parents of Hopkins County schoolchildren were greeted with a message from the school board Thursday morning alerting them of a data security breach. Because of a school board staff member’s password-protected account being compromised, a currently unidentified user had access to a countywide database, which contains the names, dates of birth and…
Category: Education Sector
9.5 billion rows of email metadata leaked by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Justin Paine reports: While searching Shodan, I recently discovered an ElasticSearch database without any authentication. This database contained metadata related to a huge amount of emails. It was eventually confirmed that this server and the email metadata was controlled by a large university located in China. I would like to thank the university’s security team…
Massive Security Flaw Detected on Baltimore County Schools’ Digital Platform, Exposing Highly Sensitive Information on Students and Staff Members
Ann Costantino reports: A massive security flaw has been detected that allowed unrestricted access to highly sensitive records pertaining to students, staff and internal school system data on a Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) public facing website. The system’s BCPS One/Schoology platform, where students are able to access classes, grades and academic resources online, is…
The University of Chicago Medicine Exposed ‘Perspective Givers’ Database With More Than A Million of Records
Another Elasticsearch misconfiguration found by SecurityDiscovery. You can read about it here.
Australian National University data breach stretching back 19 years detected; Affects approximately 200,000
ABC in Australia reports: The Australian National University has been hit by a massive data hack, with unauthorised access to significant amounts of personal details dating back 19 years. A sophisticated operator accessed the ANU’s systems illegally in late 2018 but the breach was only detected two weeks ago, the university said in a statement….
MO: Data security breach affects thousands of students of Jefferson City Public Schools
A now-suspended employee of Jefferson City Public Schools transferred student files containing medical information and student identification numbers to a personal email account, the district said in a news release Wednesday. The district said it recently determined the employee transferred the files into a personal Gmail account, which is a violation of district policy. The…