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U. British Columbia statement re: FOI privacy breach

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Dissent

On January 25, 2016, UBC responded to numerous FOI requests related to the resignation of Dr. Arvind Gupta from his post as UBC’s President in August 2015. Due to the large number of requests, and the large number of responsive pages, UBC chose to consolidate these requests and posted a package of 861 responsive pages…

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Ministry of Education failed to protect personal information involving missing portable hard drive

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Dissent

VICTORIA—In an investigation report released today, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham found that the Ministry of Education failed to protect the personal information of 3.4 million B.C. and Yukon students stored on a portable hard drive. “This investigation is unique in that we are looking at events that happened more than four years ago. The passage of…

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Florida International University data hacked and dumped: claim

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Dissent

On January 16, DataBreaches.net attempted to notify Florida International University about a possible hack after seeing email addresses and plain text passwords of what appear to be faculty and students at FIU have been dumped on a paste site.  This site sent FIU a sample of the records in the paste with a link to the paste, noting that there…

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North Carolina State University investigating claimed hack (UPDATED)

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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NYS Comptroller’s audit of Haldane Central School District reveals IT weaknesses

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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CAVA offers employees credit monitoring in wake of misconfigured database

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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