Liam Knox reports: This week, a group calling itself TuftsLeaks published documents online that contain sensitive financial information from Tufts. The leak included department budgets, the salaries of thousands of staff and faculty and the ID numbers of student employees with salaries listed. Only student salaries from fiscal year 2015 were listed in the leaked documents….
Category: Education Sector
UK: Salaries of Plymouth University staff leaked two years after data breach
Sam Blackledge reports: Plymouth University lawyers are investigating a serious data protection breach which saw the salaries of more than 240 senior staff leaked. A confidential spreadsheet was sent to an incorrect e-mail address in error back in June 2015. The incident was reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office at the time, and no further…
Hundreds of thousands of kids have identity info hacked from pediatricians’ offices
As Robert Lord of Protenus explains in the May issue of Compliance Today, pediatric patient data continues to remain not only vulnerable to criminals, but also quite valuable to them, in part because the medical records of these young patients provide criminals a blank slate upon which they can build a false identity. This—combined with the fact…
Student info potentially compromised after Victoria University data breach
Students and staff of Wellington’s Victoria University have been warned their usernames and passwords may have been compromised following a data breach. The National Cyber Security Centre and security consultants are assessing the breach after the university warned students to change their passwords on Tuesday. University chief operating officer Mark Loveard said students and staff had been…
IL: Pekin high school hit by ransomware and $37,000 demand
Nick Vlahos reports: A cyberattack last weekend has been forcing students, teachers and administrators at Pekin Community High School to forgo its computer systems. That hasn’t been easy. “You really quickly realize how much you rely on technology when you don’t have access to it for a couple of days,” Danielle Owens, the District 303…
SC: Greenwood County School District 50 notifies employees and parents of breach
Ariel Gilreath reports: About 3,300 people might be affected by a security breach after an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees’ emails as well as current and former employees’ payroll accounts in January and February. […] “There is also a limited number of students and student-parents impacted.” Read more…