Doug Levin kindly alerted me that the Hartford Courant has a story on the Total Registration data security incident. … The school officials said that Total Registration, used by the district to register students for certain exams, informed them that certain information provided by students including name, grade level, gender, date of birth, address, email…
Category: Education Sector
Seven months after learning of a breach, UCSD still has not notified HIV research participants whose privacy was breached
Brad Racino and Jill Castellano report on what sounds like either willful or negligent handling of highly sensitive information of research participants bu a non-profit participating in some university-funded research. In either event, the university was notified of a breach in October and STILL hasn’t notified the research participants with HIV whose data was available…
OKCPS confirms ransomware cyber-attack
Lili Zheng reports: Oklahoma City Public Schools have confirmed they are addressing a recent ransomware attack, compromising the district’s network. On Monday, OKCPS stated their network was “significantly compromised by a form of malware” and that the issue was “continuing to worsen.” Early Tuesday evening, an updated statement from the district confirmed that ‘form’ of…
Paterson Public Schools hacked, but when, and where are the data now? (UPDATE 1)
Jayed Rahman reports that Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey was hacked. The attacker allegedly acquired 23,103 account passwords and other computer access tokens. Information stolen in the breach includes desktop logins, email usernames and passwords, and laptop credentials. For example, the email usernames and passwords of all school district employees — including that of…
NY: Gates Chili student arrested, charged with hacking into former superintendent’s email
WHAM reports: A student in the Gates Chili Central School District is being charged as an adult after allegedly hacking into the account of the former superintendent. Ajay Bhattacharyya, 17, was arraigned Friday evening on eight felony counts: Two counts of computer trespass, two counts of identity theft and four counts of falsifying business records….
Two Hendry County high schools go too far with senior pranks
Terrace Myles reports on some recent pranks, including this one: Labelle Senior High School students managed to send an email addressed to all faculty, staff, and students about a “Mandatory Penis Inspection,” yes you read that correctly. “It was something funny, but at the same time it was something scary,” said Kenneth Carrion, a parent…