David Williams reports: Thousands of students at a Seminole County high school had private information leaked in an text alert, according to a spokesperson for for school district. The GPAs of more than 4,100 current and former students were exposed by an athletic coach. Seminole County Public Schools says on July 27, the athletic director…
Category: Education Sector
U.S. Dept. Of Education Encourages Indiana To Improve Data Security
Claire McInerny reports: The U.S. Department of Education (USED) sent a letter to Superintendent Jennifer McCormick this month outlining problems with the Indiana Department of Education’s security around student data. The state receives grant money from USED for implementing security systems, which opened the state up to an audit. According to the USED letter, the audit’s “objective…
Schools’ information up for sale on darknet?
Another listing I stumbled across while browsing what’s for sale on the darknet offered emails from what the seller claimed are .edu, dadeschools.net, and k12.wi.us, among other sources. The vendor, “dnu2k,” was asking $16.94 and claimed to have “Only 1 in stock!” I contacted the vendor to try to obtain more information, and (s)he replied that…
Ca: District School Board of Niagara reaching out to parents after privacy breach
Allan Benner reports: District School Board of Niagara is hoping to hear from parents to determine the extent of a privacy breach at a Welland high school. DSBN communications manager Kim Yielding said the school board is asking parents of students at Welland Centennial Secondary School to call 905-641-2929, ext. 54117, and leave a message…
In: NIFT student arrested for hacking Institute website
Local Police arrested an eighth semester NIFT student last evening for hacking the official website of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and tampering with the marks-sheets, police said here today.Kangra Sub Divisional Police officer Surinder Sharma told UNI this evening that NIFT Director S Balasidartha had lodged a complaint with police today that the…
Dozens of Fresno Unified employees affected by data breach
Veronica Miracle reports: Three Fresno suspects, accused of living off other people’s money– investigators said they found Andrew Clement, Katie Whala, and Randall McKinney with troves of stolen personal information last month. […] “There was stolen mail, there were checks, there was a spreadsheet from the Unified School District– so this wasn’t just one item,”…