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…
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Ca: Student hacks Thames Valley District
Jennifer O’Brien reports: Police and school board officials are investigating after a student hacked into a file containing private information — including names and addresses — of peers at South secondary school. The breach occurred April 14, said Marion Moynihan, superintendent of student achievement, information technology services for Thames Valley District school board. “A student created…
Two More Arrested in Fraud Scheme Involving Student Identity Information, One Still at Large
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department, today arrested two individuals for participating in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program using teenagers’ personal identity information. Wendy Leiba of Longwood, 53, and Bobby Lyons of Winter Garden, 50, allegedly assisted Orlando-based companies to fraudulently bill Medicaid…
Fourteen school systems impacted by Innovak Intl breach – IRS
So Innovak International never responded to my inquiries, but an IRS investigator reportedly told others that 14 school systems – three in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi – were impacted by their breach involving employees’ w-2 statements. Innovak’s web site, which never looked particularly confidence-inspiring to me to begin with, has a statement that says: We are currently…
Ca: UPEI privacy breach leaks personal data of 700 people
Krystalle Ramlakhan reports: About 700 people who sought summer accommodations through the University of Prince Edward Island website had their personal information leaked in a privacy breach last month. Personal information from submissions dating back to October 2014 were posted to a upei.ca web page, and could be found through a general web search. Read more…
Schools put on high alert for JBoss ransomware exploit
Katherine Noyes reports: More than 2,000 machines at schools and other organizations have been infected with a backdoor in unpatched versions of JBoss that could be used at any moment to install ransomware such as Samsam. That’s according to Cisco’s Talos threat-intelligence organization, which on Friday announced that roughly 3.2 million machines worldwide are at risk. Many of those…