Tom Loewy reports: So many people attended Wednesday’s special meeting of the Abingdon-Avon District 276 School Board it had to be moved from the superintendent’s conference room to Hedding Grade School’s cafeteria. While roughly 150 visitors were on hand for the start of the 6 p.m. meeting, just 25 stayed through the five-hour executive session…
Category: Education Sector
Nazareth Area School District: Student hacked into student, teacher data files
Michelle Merlin reports that Nazareth Area School District has sent out about 5,000 letters to families and teachers after discovering that a student accessed data and uploaded it onto a flash drive between 2011 and 2014. District Superintendent Dennis Riker said the old data contained student information from the district’s lunch program as well as information from a…
Data breach widens at Guilford school district as more employees complain of ID theft
Yes, another phishing scheme, but this one was partially foiled by a sharp employee. Nick McCrea reports: A March data breach at School Administrative District 4 has affected at least 55 employees, according to the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department. […] In late March, a district payroll employee received an email that appeared to be from Superintendent…
Stanford University continues to investigate breach involving employee W-2 data
There’s been an update to a previously noted breach report out of Stanford University. On April 12, I had reported that compromise of employees’ W-2 data had been linked to the university’s service vendor, W-2 Express, a service of Equifax. The breach did not appear to involve a breach of W-2 Express’s system or of Stanford University’s network. Rather,…
Two more colleges report compromise of employee W-2 info
Two more colleges have reported breaches involving employee W-2 data. I’m late picking the first one up, but it seems Allegheny College employees reported problems when filing taxes. On April 14, Angela Mauroni reported that at least 74 non-student employees of the Pennsylvania college had reported such problems. The college believes the information was accessed through the hacking…
WA: Vancouver student expelled for hacking high school email system
KPTV reports: A Vancouver Public School District spokesperson said Skyview High School email system was hacked early Tuesday morning by a student. Communications Director Patricia Nuzzo said the student was “emergency expelled” until appropriate disciplinary action can be determined. Nuzzo added the student hacked into a teacher email account and sent six different messages to more…