Abby Miller reports: Ohio University has implemented multiple safety measures in order to decrease the amount of phishing email attacks against OU faculty and students. The first security updates were implemented on March 9, which were a part of OU’s bigger plan to increase its security measures, according to its website. The changes were put…
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WSU to pay up to $4.7 million for data theft involving 1.2 million people
Breaches that involve health data generally will cost you more. Asia Fields reports: Washington State University learned a costly lesson after a hard drive containing the personal information of more than a million people was stolen from a self-storage locker in 2017. Now, the university is going to have to pay even more. In a…
CA: Student council presidential election hacked by candidate
AP reports: The first online election for student government at Berkeley High School became a lesson in more than democracy. Students also learned about vote fraud, hacking and digital privacy after a high school junior who was running for class president cast hundreds of fake online votes for himself. As many as 2,400 students were…
UT fired counselor accused of disclosing student’s PTSD
Sarah Elms reports: A University of Toledo counselor accused of improperly disclosing a student’s personal health information has been fired. University officials on Dec. 18, 2018, notified Mychail Scheramic that his employment would be terminated at close of business March 18. He was hired in 2017 as the university’s counseling center director and was paid…
PA: Community College of Allegheny County discloses breach of former students’ info
Oof. Community College of Allegheny County responded to a public records request concerning former students. They redacted student PII,in the spreadsheets, but due to “technical failures in the redaction process,” the data could be unmasked. Read the notification to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office.
Georgia Tech says data breach exposed info of 1.3 million people Updated: Apr 2, 2019 – 12:21 PM
WSB-TV reports: Georgia Tech says more than a million people’s personal information may have been exposed after someone gained “unauthorized access” to a web application. Officials said the breach impacts 1.3 million people, including “some current and former faculty, students, staff and student applicants.” They do not know what information was taken from the system,…