First his Twitter account was suspended. Then he was arrested. That’s probably why he didn’t respond to an email inquiry from this site. There’s an update to the JSU breach reported yesterday. William Thornton reports that a juvenile has been arrested by order of the District Court of Calhoun County and is being detained by the Coosa Valley…
Category: Education Sector
Site creates unauthorized searchable database of info of Jacksonville State University students, faculty
Seth Boster reports: Jacksonville State University officials learned Tuesday of a website that allows users to search for students’ personal information, including photos, addresses and phone numbers, all apparently stolen from JSU’s own database. The site allows visitors to search using students’ names to find photographs along with birthdates, student ID numbers, fraternity and sorority…
Horry County Schools approves paying computer virus ransom
WBTW reports that a South Carolina school district is paying a ransom demand because they have no way to access 25 servers with elementary school data after their system was locked up by ransomware: The Horry County school system remains locked out of several servers after a ransom computer virus got into the system last week. Charles…
UK: University of Greenwich data breach exposed sensitive student info online
Okay, there are breaches involving student information and then there are really bad breaches involving sensitive student info. This is one of the latter. The BBC reports that details about hundreds of London-based research students were exposed online by the University of Greenwich. Students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers and signatures were…
Des Moines administrator mistakenly publishes student scores
Jason Clayworth reports: The individual test scores of Des Moines elementary students identified as part of a behavioral needs presentation were posted on a personal website by a school administrator, a likely violation of federal law, a state official said Monday. The color-coded data are three years old and highlighted the names of Lovejoy Elementary…
NY: Phishing scheme may have resulted in tax refund fraud
There’s an update to a reported phishing attack involving Hudson City School District. John Mason and Roger Hannigan report: The phishing scam that netted the Social Security numbers of all Hudson City School District staff members has moved in a troubling new direction. Several staff members, according to District Superintendent Maria Suttmeier, have started to…