Saige Francis reports: On Nov. 8 and 9, Rutgers experienced a “data security” breach that left the information of nearly 1,700 students unprotected, said Neal Buccino, a University spokesperson. This incident affected students in the Department of Computer Science and revealed information including Rutgers I.D. numbers, cumulative GPAs and Spring 2018 class schedules. Sensitive information,…
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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Nanette Asimov reports: Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students — and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records. A student discovered in February…
State Ag Dept.: East Texas school districts among those affected by ransomware
Meredith Shamburger reports: Several East Texas school districts have been affected by a computer security breach, with students’ personal information potentially being compromised, according to a notice from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Affected school districts include New Diana ISD, Ore City ISD, Gilmer ISD, Gladewater ISD, Harleton ISD, Harrison County Juvenile Services, Karnack ISD,…
Dalhousie University warns 20,000 of potential information breach
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.
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…