Scott Koller explains: The state of New Hampshire recently enacted House Bill 322 (“HB 322”), which requires the Department of Education (“DOE”) to implement additional procedures to protect student and teacher data from security breaches. Those procedures now include a breach notification requirement. Effective August 11, 2015, the DOE must develop a detailed security plan…
Category: Education Sector
Top Hong Kong universities caught up in major hack attack on more than 100 global institutions
I had noted this hack already, but it’s interesting to see how it was reported in the South China Morning Post. James Griffiths and Ben Westcott report: A number of major educational institutions in Hong Kong were allegedly affected by a major hack attack encompassing more than 100 universities and government agencies worldwide. According to…
Stolen laptop contained UCSF research participants’ health & insurance info
The University of California – San Francisco posted this notice on their site on July 2: UC San Francisco is alerting individuals about a burglary involving an unencrypted laptop belonging to a faculty member in the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service that contained some personal, research and health information. While there is no evidence of…
Oops. A school sends all eighth-grade report cards to every family in the grade
Valerie Strauss reports: Oops. An elementary school in Connecticut accidentally e-mailed the report cards for every eighth-grade student to every eighth-grade family. Instead of sending a single report card as a secure document to a single family, someone sent all of the student evaluations as an attachment to the entire grade at Cromwell Middle School,…
Breach snobs
So Harvard gets hacked and dozens of media outlets dutifully headline it. But when millions of students, faculty, and staff at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) had their hacked personal and financial information up for sale after MCCCD failed to properly secure their network following an earlier hack, most media outlets never even mentioned it – and…
NZ: School email error exposed allegations of family violence to student’s peers
Belinda Feek reports: A Waikato high school is carrying out two investigations as to how an email revealing alleged family violence was accidentally sent to students. The school, which the Herald has chosen not to name, confirmed it was working with “outside agencies” to provide wraparound support for one of its students when the incident…