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Category: Education Sector
AU: Pair facing 10 years jail for allegedly hacking student’s Facebook and deleting his uni enrolment data
Ken McGregor reports: A young man and woman who allegedly deleted a student’s university enrolment in five subjects and hacked his Facebook and email accounts face up to a decade in jail if convicted of the cybercrime. Jake Anthony Parker Davis, 21, of Port Noarlunga South, and Sarah Ruqayyah Salah, 22, of Melrose Park, have pleaded…
NH: Personal info of Dover volunteers mistakenly dumped
Kimberley Haas reports: Personal information for close to 160 volunteers in Dover’s school district — including their fingerprint cards and social security numbers — was “mistakenly destroyed” this fall, according to city officials. Between early September and the beginning of last month, a janitor working for S.J. Services in Danvers, Mass., bagged up numerous postmarked…
In: Lucknow University student data hacked; uni admits loss but denies hack
TNN reports: Lucknow University has lost all the data of students who had filled in the online application to appear for back paper and improvement examination after the university’s examination website was hacked two days ago. Read more on Times of India. It’s interesting that Times of India would be so firm in declaring that…
GA: Hundreds of DeKalb teachers’ personal information exposed
Keith Whitney reports: Just one day after that massive data leak from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office there was yet another one. This one involved hundreds of teachers from the DeKalb County School System. The breach was part of a mass email that was sent out to the system’s special education teachers. But somehow,…
AU: Law student charged with hacking UQ to get better marks
AAP reports: A law student has been charged with hacking the University of Queensland‘s computer system to cheat his way to better marks. The student allegedly used a staff ID card to break into a staff area and logged on to the private system to upgrade the marks on his papers ahead of graduation, according…