David Crowder reports: In mid-April, computer hackers had five days’ access to the personal data of a reported 51 El Paso Independent School District employees and were able to redirect their April 15 paychecks. That’s what the district has told the employees who were hacked, including longtime teacher Anne Stewart. EPISD made good on the…
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AZ: Gilbert Public Schools email hacked by junior high school student
AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…
Open records request goof exposes personal info of 36,000 Poway USD students and their parents
Yet another breach in response to an open records/freedom of information request, this one affecting 36,000 Poway Unified School District students in California. CBS reports: The privacy breach leaked information about every student in the district and it included: medical information, home addresses, nicknames, birthdates, student grades, test scores and parents’ sensitive occupations. The San Diego…
MO: After school closes its doors, personal student records remain inside, unprotected
Monica Evans reports: Former students and parents want to know why student records with personal information are sitting inside an abandoned school at 77th and Wyandotte in Kansas City, Mo. The former Bingham Junior High School building closed in 2001, but an anonymous source gave FOX 4 a box of files containing student names, social security…
City College of San Francisco notifies students after employee falls prey to phishing scam
The City College of San Francisco is notifying some students after an employee responded to a phishing scam. As the college explains in a letter from Jay Field, Chief Technology Officer: On April 15, 2016, we learned that an employee had responded to a “phishing” email thinking that it was a legitimate request. When we learned of this, we…
CA: Kern County Superintendent of Schools investigating employee data breach
Justin Burton reports: Employees of Kern Superintendent of Schools have been alerted to a data breach at the organization, 23ABC News has learned. In a note sent to staff members on Monday, Superintendent Christine Lizardi Frazier said the group’s payroll department fell victim to a data phishing scam. A KCSOS spokesman told 23ABC the incident…