Danielle Salisbury reports: A Jeopardy! champion and former Adrian College professor who hacked college email accounts pleaded guilty to a felony this week. Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret Noe is to sentence Jass on July 20. She admitted on Wednesday, June 13, to unauthorized access to a computer, program or network, punishable by a maximum…
Category: Education Sector
Ca: Sooke School District warns parents of privacy breach
BC Local News reports: The Sooke School District is warning parents about a privacy invasion after an employee’s email was hacked. “It has been discovered that the email account of a staff member was compromised by someone outside of the district and used to email out a spam informational link to other staff. Approximately 15…
ZW: Harare Institute of Technology Hacked Again? More Than 3,500 Student Account Credentials Leaked
Farai Mudzingwa reports: Last year in June, the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) was hacked and the individual behind the hack demanded US$999 in order to return the files. This hacker also claimed to have secured some – in fact ALL- HIT databases and now there appears to be a new database that contains students…
University of Vermont notifies community of hack of NetID portal
Brian Wallstin reports: University of Vermont officials say they have no reason to believe the personal information of 37,000 current and former faculty, staff and students fell into the wrong hands following a breach of the school’s computer systems. On Wednesday, UVM notified users of NetID, a portal that grants access to campus email, services such…
University of Toledo alerts some faculty, students of lost flash drive
Lauren Lindstrom reports: A lost flash drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number of people associated with the University of Toledo prompted the university to send out letters alerting those affected by the “security incident.” A UT faculty member lost an unencrypted flash drive containing personal information belonging to some…
UK: The University of Greenwich fined £120,000 by Information Commissioner for “serious” security breach
The University of Greenwich has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner following a “serious” security breach involving the personal data of nearly 20,000 people – among them students and staff. It is the first university to have been fined by the Commissioner under the existing data protection legislation (Data Protection Act 1998). The investigation…