Claire Lowe, Erin Serpico, and Avalon Zoppo report: GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — About 800 school district employees, including substitute teachers, along with thousands in district funds, were affected by a cybersecurity incident last month, Superintendent Annette C. Giaquinto said Thursday. “We are continuing to work diligently to resolve this matter and provide updates to those affected,”…
Category: Education Sector
Ex-Chicago Public Schools worker accused of stealing info on 80,000 people in latest data breach
Nader Issa reports: A former Chicago Public Schools worker is facing several felony charges after officials allege the worker stole personal information on about 80,000 employees, volunteers and vendors from a CPS database. The former worker, Kristi Sims, was arrested in the case on Thursday, and officers recovered the stolen files after executing search warrants,…
Central New York Schools Struggle with Ongoing Cyberattacks
Elizabeth Doran reports: More than 50 Central New York school districts have been hit with nine cyber attacks so far this year, the most recent attack occurring on Oct. 4, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said today. Schumer, speaking at the Central New York Regional Information Center in in DeWitt today, said he is sending a…
Bully 4 U: Victims’, perpetrators’ names exposed in Western Albemarle data breach
Schilling Show reports: The results of an annual school survey administered by Western Albemarle High School (WAHS) were inadvertently exposed to the public in a serious breach of security and student privacy protocol. In a post-breach letter to parents, WAHS principal, Darah Bonham, explained that the school’s Peer Nomination Survey “asks students to identify peers…
EE: Personal and sensitive information of children publicly available for years
As I was just saying in the post about the Girl Scouts breach, children’s medical information can be breached in so many ways outside of the healthcare sector. And that’s true outside the U.S. as well. Priit Pärnapuu provides a concerning, but timely, example from Estonia: Schools’ information system EKIS allowed anyone to read and…
Man who targeted Georgia Tech employees through phishing scheme sentenced
J. D. Capelouto reports: A Nigerian man was sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison on Monday for his role in an online scam that accessed the employee bank accounts of several colleges and universities, including some at Georgia Tech, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Olayinka Olaniyi, 34, was part of a “phishing” scheme that…