Georgia Tech reports: Georgia Tech Human Resources notified employees Thursday morning of a data breach that occurred in Tech’s systems earlier this month. On Dec. 12, a Georgia Tech employee conducted research on a trusted website that had been compromised by a malicious software known as ransomware. The ransomware infiltrated the employee’s computer, which was…
Category: Education Sector
Frederick County Public Schools had brief internal data breach last year
Brandi Bottalico reports that Frederick County Public Schools, currently embroiled in a finger-pointing exercise with the state as to who’s responsible for a recently discovered breach involving former students’ information, had another breach last year. In January 2015, employees’ W-2 statements were viewable by other employees. The breach appeared to be strictly internal and due to human…
GA: Columbia County schools victim of data breach
Mike Lepp reports: The Columbia County School District has revealed that one of their servers suffered a data breach. The attack happened on November 28th when one of their servers was breached by an outside source. […] The affected server did not contain any student data, but it DID contain confidential employee information, including names,…
University of Nebraska-Lincoln notifies 30,000 of breach that may have occurred two years ago
Chris Dunker reports: A breach of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer server potentially exposed thousands of student names, ID numbers and grades to an outside source, campus officials said Tuesday. In a letter sent to approximately 30,000 current and former students, UNL said an unauthorized breach of a server hosting a math placement exam occurred…
State rebuts fault in Frederick County Public Schools data breach
Jeremy Bauer-Wolf reports: Frederick County Public Schools said on Monday that it is likely that students’ personal information was stolen from a state government computer system, a claim that Maryland’s education department nevertheless rebuts. Names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 1,000 former Frederick County students who attended school between November 2005 and…
TX: CCISD notifies students of breach of personal info
The Corpus Christi Independent School District is offering 443 of their former students and one current student free credit monitoring service, after their Social Security numbers were published to the internet. Source: KRISTV