Eugenia Estes reports: Annual state-mandated assessment testing did not get off to the best start this week for many systems, including Greene County Schools, due to what is being investigated as a cyber attack on the company that handles online TN Ready testing for the state. Although there were some disruptions to the testing for…
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Ca: Camp fYrefly notifies former participants, volunteers of data breach
Caley Ramsay reports: Upwards of 700 former participants, volunteers and youth leaders of Camp fYrefly may have had their personal information compromised, according to the University of Alberta. An internal investigation found a former employee with the for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) Camp fYrefly downloaded and shared personal information about some camp participants, volunteers,…
Former student charged In cyber attack
Fox47 reports: An attack on Ingham Intermediate School District’s online network and the person police say is responsible was one of its own students. The incident happened in February 2017. On Wednesday FOX 47’s Alani Letang learned more on that student, who now faces criminal charges after shutting down the district’s internet servers. Police say…
TX: Victoria ISD notifies employees of breach involving their personal information
Let’s remember that k-12 school districts often maintain medical information on their employees, as this notification from Victoria Independent School District in Texas reminds us. In this case, some employee email accounts were inappropriately accessed between July and October 2017. Some of the emails in those accounts contained employees’ personal information, including “name, address, Social…
Former University of Iowa student pleads guilty to grade-changing hacking scheme
Jordan Prochnow reports that Trevor Graves, the former University of Iowa student who had been charged with hacking the school’s network to change grades, was back in court on Monday to plead guilty. According to a plea agreement, Graves intentionally “caused the transmission of a command that caused damage and impairment to the integrity or…
Mount Ida students’ records shared without their permission
This may be more a matter for PogoWasRight.org than this site, so I’ll cross-post it over there. Laura Krantz reports: Students and parents at Mount Ida College say they are furious because the college shared their private records with UMass Dartmouth without their permission, amid a controversial plan to shut down the college and offer…