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University of East Anglia leaks the names of students who have been sexually assaulted, suicidal and had abortions to the whole department

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Dissent

George Martin and Matt Howard report: An email detailing confidential extenuating circumstances has been sent to every undergraduate student in the American Studies school at UEA, The Tab can exclusively reveal. It contained information about several private issues, including one student with suicidal tendencies, one who had an abortion and one who had been sexually…

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Oklahoma U. shuts down file sharing service after failing to protect thousands of students’ records

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Dissent

Dana Branham reports: OU unintentionally exposed thousands of students’ educational records — including social security numbers, financial aid information and grades in records dating to at least 2002 — through lax privacy settings in a campus file-sharing network, violating federal law. The university scrambled to safeguard the files late Tuesday after learning The Daily had…

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Washington State Uni notifies those affected by stolen hard drive

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Dissent

PULLMAN, Wash., June 9, 2017 — Today, Washington State University (WSU) announced that it is addressing a security incident involving certain community members’ personal information. Though there is no evidence the personal information has been accessed or misused, WSU is notifying impacted individuals and offering free identity protection services to those individuals whose personal information may have…

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NC: Guidance counselor steals students’ info in $400K Medicaid scam

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Dissent

Carla Field reports: A man who was a public school guidance counselor and who owned a counseling service admitted in court Wednesday to using information about some of his elementary school students in a $400,0000 Medicare scam. Joseph Frank Korzelius, 46, of Tryon, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to health care fraud. Korzelius, who owns Western…

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UCF seeks to dismiss computer hack lawsuit

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Dissent

Gabrielle Russon has an update on breach litigation involving the University of Central Florida. The University of Central Florida is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by five people whose Social Security numbers were compromised in the school’s data hack last year. In February 2016, UCF revealed there was a security breach involving 63,000 current and…

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Over a thousand Elon accounts compromised in OneLogin security breach

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Dissent

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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