The Belfast Telegraph reports: A data breach at one of Northern Ireland’s largest further education colleges has put the personal and financial data – including bank account numbers and sort codes – of hundreds of staff at risk. Staff at the South Eastern Regional College (SERC) learned about the massive security breach yesterday in a…
Category: Education Sector
UK: Sacked IT technician who hacked former school sentenced
Eagle Radio reports: A former employee of a private school in Leatherhead has been found guilty of a number of cyber-crime offences investigated by Surrey Police. Donald Bart-Williams was sacked from his role in the IT department at St Johns School, but used his specialist skills and knowledge to hack into the school system and…
Education Scotland order hard reset on school social networking app following major security breach
Derek Healey reports: Education Scotland is facing “very difficult questions” after being forced to order a hard reset of all passwords across its national digital learning platform following a major security breach. An email distributed to headteachers and seen by The Courier has revealed how management called for all log-ins to be scrapped after it…
AU: University of New South Wales loses data after IBM storage failure
Julian Bajkowski reports: UNSW students are facing the prospect that some information saved to the university’s online storage has been lost for good after a 16 hour-long outage this month blamed on IBM. “Regrettably, some students may have lost some data in the outage,” UNSW said in a statement to students. The statement advised that…
More details emerge about Chicago Public Schools data breach
If there is a Keystone Cops equivalent of a k-12 data breach, a recent incident involving Chicago Public Schools may be a strong contender. Last week, this site noted a breach that seemed puzzling in its description. Since that time, some informed parents have reached out to me to provide me with more details about…
Chicago Public Schools error exposed more than 3,700 students’ and families’ data
David Struett reports: Chicago Public Schools apologized Friday evening for a mass email accidentally linking to the private data of thousands of students and families. […] Families were sent an email Friday evening from CPS’s Office of Access and Enrollment inviting them to submit supplemental applications to selective enrollment schools. Attached at the bottom of…