Morgan Jacobsen reports: State auditors recently found reasons to praise education administrators for the transparency, accuracy and reliability of financial reporting in public schools. But in the process of looking through school transparency data reported on Utah’s public finance website, auditors “stumbled across” a trend that concerned them, according to performance audit supervisor Chris Otto. Since…
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UT: Salt Lake City School District systems down after hack, no student info compromised
Fox News reports: The Salt Lake City School District phone system is working again after officials said a cyber hack took down phone and online systems Monday. The district said, ” Our district network was the target of a cyber attack where thousands of external systems coordinated to access our system at the same time. This attack…
WY: Some U. Wyoming Some student and faculty computers under hacker control
Jeremy Rowley reports: Numerous university email accounts have been exposed to an email containing an attachment with the ability to steal information off of computers. “This is a particularly bad one, as you might expect,” Vice President of Information Technology on campus Robert Aylward said. “It essentially attempts to steal confidential data on your machine….
KS: USD 259 investigating computer hacking attempt
John Boyd reports that not much is known yet about a hacking attempt at USD 259: The Wichita Public School District is investigating a hacking attempt. USD 259 Superintendent John Allison said Monday morning that they do not know the extent of the attempt, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it involves student…
Former Assistant Band Director Sentenced for Identity Theft Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Former Students and Other Individuals’ Personal Identifying Information
There’s a follow-up to a case previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida: A former assistant band director was sentenced today to 61 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $129,321 for his participation…
Theft At U. Washington Leaves Human Rights Workers On Edge
Jennifer Wing reports: The theft of a computer and hard-drive containing the names and stories of people who survived the war in El Salvador has human rights workers on edge. The break-in happened in Smith Hall, in the offices of the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights, or CHR. UW’s Campus Police Department says…