On January 17, DataBreaches.net became aware of data that had been uploaded to a paste site on January 15. It claimed to be data from the cwise subdomain of North Carolina State University’s web site. From that site: The NOAA Cooperative Program for Climate & Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment (CWISE) is a collaboration between NOAA’s National Climatic Data…
Category: Education Sector
NYS Comptroller’s audit of Haldane Central School District reveals IT weaknesses
It’s been a while since the NYS Comptroller’s Office has released any school district audits on information technology, but they’ve released one this week on Haldane Central School District. They summarize the findings of their audit, which covered the period July 1, 2014 — August 19, 2015 this way: We also found that the District…
CAVA offers employees credit monitoring in wake of misconfigured database
Back in December, this site broke the story of a misconfigured database affecting students and faculty at California Virtual Academies. The leaky database had been uncovered by independent researcher Chris Vickery, who estimated the number affected at 59,500. CAVA would subsequently inform this site that an unnamed vendor was responsible for the misconfiguration. Today, CAVA submitted a copy…
TX: Midway students charged after hacking online portal to issue false alarm
Stephanie Butts reports: Two Midway High School students were charged Tuesday with distributing a false report or alarm after posting a screen shot of a false administrative document warning families about potential violence at the school, Hewitt Police Chief Jim Devlin said. Midway Independent School District officials fielded about 200 calls Tuesday after a social…
NY: Hudson City School District employees hit by phishing scheme
Teachers in Lawrence Public Schools in Massachusetts weren’t the only school personnel hit by a phishing scheme this past week. Jillian Nadiack reports that Hudson City School District personnel were also hit. And although the Superintendent didn’t answer a direct question about whether anyone fell for the two emails, it sounds like at least some did: In…
MA: Lawrence teachers’ info compromised by phishing email
While some of us are spending this weekend digging out from snow, some Lawrence Public Schools teachers in Massachusetts are having to deal with protecting themselves from identity theft after an unspecified number of employees fell for a phishing scheme. Garrin Marchetti reports that personnel were notified of the breach of the online database by…