John McPhee reports: Dalhousie University is contacting people whose private information was inadvertently put into a computer file accessible to faculty, staff and students. The university discovered the problem last March but letters informing people of the problem have been arriving just this week. Read more in The Chronicle Herald.
Category: Education Sector
SG: School’s data breach spooks students
Jan Lee reports: Ex-students from Xinmin Secondary School received a shock yesterday when they found out that their alma mater had suffered a data breach. Several told The New Paper they received calls from their former school yesterday, informing them that their names and identity card numbers had been leaked on pastebin.com, self-described as “where…
CA: Privacy breaches in Stanford file system affect 200 people
Fangzhou Liu, Hannah Knowles and Ada Statler report on a breach that has nightmarish qualities to it: very sensitive information exposed, but you can’t figure out for how long and you can’t determine who, if anyone, accessed it? Ugh….. Stanford is in the process of notifying some 200 people — a mix of employees and…
More details emerge on AZ Board of Education student data breach
More details have emerged on a breach first noted on this site last month. Jim Small of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR) reports that the breach occurred after AZCIR filed a public records request for records of appeals filed by students over letter grades issued by the state Board of Education. On Oct….
University of East Anglia investigates another data leak
Warwick Ashford reports: The University of East Anglia is investigating a second personal data leak in six months after an employee’s personal data was sent to hundreds of postgraduate research students. The email was sent on 5 November to about 300 recipients in the social science faculty. When the error was discovered, the university sent…
Baylor College of Medicine notifies former applicants after data from 2016 breach found on publicly available web site
Baylor College of Medicine is sending notification letters to an unspecified number of former applicants. In the letter, Randy Langenderfer, Vice President, Chief Compliance and Audit Officer writes that they first became aware of a possible database breach in October, 2016. In November 2016, those affected were notified of the compromise. Now Langenderfer writes: In late…