Rachel Ellis reports: An e-mail was sent out earlier this morning that instructed all Elon faculty members to reset their Elon password immediately. Christopher Waters, the Assistant Vice President for Technology and the Chief Information Officer of the University, notified staff members that their Elon e-mail would be automatically disabled if passwords were not changed…
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How we hacked more than 10,000 user accounts at the University of Amsterdam
I seem to have missed this one a few weeks ago, but this post on Auke Zwaan is definitely worth noting: Last year, Bram ter Borch (a fellow student of the Master System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam) and I did a security review of the Blackboard implementation at the University of…
University of Alaska: thousands affected by data breach, including names, social security numbers
KTUU reports: Approximately 25,000 students, staff, and faculty members associated with the University of Alaska were affected following a successful phishing scam and subsequent data breach late last year. The University of Alaska sent out letters to those people who had their names and accompanying social security numbers exposed to “an individual or individuals unknown…
AU: Camberwell High School becomes second target of major privacy breach in two weeks
Ebony Bowden reports: Police are investigating a second major privacy breach at a Melbourne high school which saw the personal information of families illegally accessed by a student. The breach at Camberwell High School follows a similar but unrelated incident at Blackburn High School two weeks ago where the personal information of families was illegally…
Mallard Creek High School students’ records found blowing across streets
WSOC-TV reports that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ officials were notified after residents found documents with Mallard Creek High School students’ names, addresses and other personal information blowing in the wind. The district acknowledges the information should have been shredded. Officials said a contractor hauling away the trash didn’t properly secure it, which caused some documents to spill…
NY: Niskayuna school laptop stolen, 945 students’ personal information on device
The personal information of 945 students, both past, and present, was compromised as a result of a thief stealing the laptop of a Niskayuna school psychologist. The school psychologist had been on vacation in Virginia over the school’s spring break period and their car was broken into and the laptop was taken. The window of…