Kelly Heinzerling reports: A breach in privacy of some advance class registration lists has prompted the University to launch an investigation and to notify the students of the incident whose personal information was accessed during this incident. The class lists contained information on class enrollment and included students’ name and the last four digits of…
Category: Education Sector
Leon County Schools explains the Florida Virtual School Data Leak
To follow up on my post about a Florida vendor’s misconfiguration that impacted 368,000 students as well as thousands of former and current Leon County Schools employees: I took marked exception to some of the FLVS‘s initial claims because I felt it was misleading to try to cry “hack” when it was a misconfigured server that exposed…
IL: Security breach affects 46 employees, family members at Columbia College Chicago
Molly Wash, a campus reporter, reports that Share Point may have shared too much, but it’s not clear to me from the report how this happened. A data security breach resulted in the disclosure of the names and Social Security numbers of Columbia employees and their family members on IRIS, the college’s internal website. The…
UK: Up to 100 students’ info sent to the wrong parents
Keane Duncan reports: A mailroom muddle has resulted in a major data protection breach at a Teesside school. The personal details of up to 100 students at Hillsview Academy, Teesville , have ended up in the wrong hands. It involved ‘data checking forms’ – containing everything from contact details to medical history – being delivered…
MVSU Campus Loses Internet After SamSam Ransomware Attack
Mississippi Valley State University’s campus was temporary without internet service this week after university officials said the school was hit by a ransomware attack. Read more on Delta Daily News.
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…