Chen Huizhi reports: A former marketing manager at the private educational service New Oriental has been arrested in connection with exchanging and trading tens of millions of items of personal contact information about students, Shanghai police said. The suspect, a 34-year-old man surnamed Gu, was reported to have claimed making a profit of about 10,000…
Category: Education Sector
Il: Student expelled for hacking professors’ emails
Shahar Chai reports: An electrical engineering student in the Technion Institute of Technology has been expelled from the university after hacking his professors’ emails and stealing information, including at least one exam. The incident happened a few months ago, but this week the university decided to file a complaint against the student with the police….
University of Georgia student and employee data found in data dump
What appears to be a combination list from various databases related to the University of Georgia appeared on a public paste site yesterday. Although the University of Georgia has disclosed a number of breaches in the past six years, none of the breaches this site knows about would account for all the data in this…
Hacktivist who conspired to hack high school football website sentenced to 2 years
Cyrus Farivar reports that Deric Lostutter, aka “KYAnonymous,” whose case has been followed on this site since 2015, was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Lostutter had been instrumental in leaking evidence concerning the Steubenville rape case. Lostutter initially denied his involvement. But in November 2016, he reversed himself and took a plea agreement in exchange for the prosecution dropping…
University of Idaho notifies 257 employees after phishing incident
Not all phishing attempts are spear-phishing for W-2 forms. The University of Idaho is notifying employees whose personal information was in an employee’s email account after the employee fell for a phishing attack. From their notification: On January 24, 2017, we detected that one of our accounts was being used to send phishing email. The…
Sunnyside Unified School District email gaffe exposed employees’ info
Barbara Grijalva and Maria Hechanova report: A pretty big mistake had Tucson’s second largest school district scrambling to make sure its employees won’t be hurt. Personal employee information was accidentally emailed to every Sunnyside Unified School District employee. That’s more than 2,000 people. According to the district’s IT department, at least 559 employees opened that email….