Camilla Turner and Helena Horton report: American hackers targeted more than 400 schools with a bomb hoax, as more than a dozen police forces across the country launch investigations. Many schools sent urgent messages to parents asking them to pick their children up on Monday morning and drew up emergency evacuation plans, after receiving an email which…
Category: Education Sector
Florida Virtual School database now uploaded to HaveIBeenPwned
From Troy Hunt, an aid to parents who want to check if their email address or their child’s email address was in a leaked database: New breach: The Florida Virtual School had 368k student records with 543k email addresses exposed including names, grades and dates of birth. It’s flagged as “sensitive” due to the prevalence…
Nampa School District investigating cyber security breach
Steve Bertel reports: The Nampa School District Thursday informed its employees of a potential security issue involving personally identifiable information. “The district discovered an individual had gained unauthorized access to a school district e-mail account, which contained information about 3,983 of its current and past employees,” said Nampa School District spokeswoman Kathleen Tuck. “The breach…
UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students
WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here. Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.
Centennial not pressing charges against student hackers
Teresa Carson reports: The Centennial School District has not pressed charges against two unnamed students who hacked into the districts computers in January and got access to the personal information of “a couple of hundred” students and former students. Gresham Police officer Ben Costigan said the district declined to press charges and handled the matter…
Personal data of 3,000 South Carolina college scholarship recipients exposed for nearly a year
Andy Shain reports: About 3,000 South Carolina college scholarship recipients had their personal information exposed online for nearly a year, state regulators revealed Monday. Letters notifying affected Palmetto Fellows scholarship awardees were mailed Sunday, the S.C. Commission on Higher Education said. Read more on Post and Courier.