The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…
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Clark University notifies students of phishing incident
Clark University in Massachusetts began notifying some students whose personal information, including Social Security Numbers, were in an employee’s email account that had been accessed. According to their notification dated July 20, the university’s investigation revealed that an unauthorized individual could have accessed the employee’s email account between March 19 and March 23rd. From the wording…
Vermont schools lag on cybersecurity while risks hit home with $50K fraud from Pownal
Nicole Higgins DeSmet reports: A cyber thief infiltrated a Vermont supervisory union’s computer network and made a $50,000 transfer out of a school bank account, but safe guards on the account alerted staff members to take action. “A more sophisticated thief or hacker could have spent the time to turn off alerts, make all bank…
NJ: C-TEC: Student information may be impacted by data breach
Bethany Bruner reports: Students at the Career and Technology Education Center of Licking County may have had their personal information, including names and social security numbers, exposed to a hacker earlier this year. Brian Wilfong, Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator for C-TEC, said the school first learned of a possible data breach on April 19….
Purdue data breach exposes personal info of 26K prospective students
Ron Wilkins reports: Personal information of 26,598 prospective Purdue students found its way to a parent of a possible student, Purdue spokesman Jim Bush said Thursday in a news release. The file with the personal information was mistakenly sent to a parent of prospective student on May 17. “While Purdue regrets this error, we have…
Lake Oswego School District warns students about phishing email after employee account hacked
KOIN 6 in Oregon reports: The culprit had no problem drawing attention. At 2:36 p.m., a tweet came out from the Lake Oswego School district Twitter account. In all caps, the tweet signaled a change in the account. Read more on KOIN 6. This may be more than just a hack of the district’s Twitter…