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…
Category: Education Sector
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…
Work Study Documents Accidentally Released to College Community
Saadya Chevan reports: Last April, the College’s Financial Aid office uploaded and accidentally made visible to students, faculty, and staff two confidential documents containing federal work-study (FWS) balances of 107 students from two Spring 2018 pay-periods. The documents also reveal by implication that all of these students had applied for and received financial aid awards…
VA: Norfolk school parents notified of medical data breach
Sara Gregory reports: Norfolk school officials this week notified the parents of students and employees whose medical information was publicly disclosed in school crisis plans online for a year until August. After staff and attorneys reviewed the plans, the district identified a total of 308 students and staff who were referenced in the school crisis…