Joseph Paul reports: A Harrison High School student is suspected of hacking a teacher’s website and posting offensive content, officials said Wednesday. Tippecanoe School Corp. administrators discovered Monday night that the teacher’s classroom page — located within Harrison’s website — had been accessed without authorization, spokesperson Sue Scott said. The suspect appears to have “obtained the teacher’s password,” Scott said, posted “inappropriate and offensive…
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Hellgate High data breach included records of former, deceased students
There’s yet another update to the Hellgate High School breach that was first disclosed in December. Chelsea Davis reports that alumni, former students, transfers and even deceased students also were included in December’s data breach. Read more on The Missoulian.
NY: Troy CSD officials: Security breach may have threatened student information (UPDATED)
WRGB reports: School officials are working to determine the source of a security breach they say had the potential to put student information at risk. Administrators say they were alerted to a hack on a district server, and have reached out to police and a cyber-security firm to investigate the problem. District officials say they…
UCF hit with potential class action lawsuit in Social Security hack
That was quick – but also interesting. Sean Levin reports: A former University of Central Florida student body president and member of UCF’s Board of Trustees filed a class action lawsuit against the university Friday after being victimized in UCF’s massive Social Security number hack. The lawsuit was filed in federal court, in the Orlando…
VA: Stolen University of Mary Washington laptop held SSN (UPDATED)
Add University of Mary Washington to any list you’re keeping of education entities that have reported a breach in 2016. The university recently started notifying an unknown number of people that a university-issued laptop with names, addresses, and Social Security numbers was reported stolen in transit. The details of the theft were not disclosed, but the…
Former Cuesta College employee sentenced for identity theft
There’s a follow-up to an insider breach at Cuesta College first noted on this site in June, 2015. The employee in question, Lacey Fowler, 30, was a human resources analyst at the college and used her position to access co-workers’ information to open up credit accounts in the victims’ names. She had pleaded no contest to…