Their announcement: UC Berkeley officials announced today (Thursday, April 30) that they are sending alert notices to current students and other individuals regarding a computer data breach that may have resulted in unauthorized access to their Social Security numbers or other personal information. There is no evidence that such information has actually been used, but…
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Technical College of the Lowcountry notifies students whose SSN were exposed online by third party
On April 27, the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina, disclosed a breach involving high school students who had enrolled in a program they offered. Here is their first statement: On Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Technical College of the Lowcountry was notified of a possible data security incident involving the online publication…
UK: University of Birmingham exam cheat jailed after hacking computers to boost marks
Ross McCarthy reports: A cheating student who hacked into the University of Birmingham’s computer system so he could get a better degree has been jailed for four months. Imran Uddin, 25, used a keyboard spying device to steal staff passwords and then upped five exam marks, including one from 57 per cent to 73 per cent. Read…
WV: School system computer network attacked by botnet; Ohio County student allegedly involved
Jeff Jenkins reports: A Wheeling area high school student was recently able to invade the public education computer network and slow things down including standardized testing that was happening in some counties at the time. West Virginia Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Sterling Beane said it happened last week when the student used an…
IE: Photocopies of college students’ passports left in a skip on busy street
TheJournal.ie reports: Photocopies of sensitive information belonging to students were left in a skip bag outside a Dublin college. The bag was left outside the Dublin College for Advanced Studies (DCAS), a private college on Dublin’s Capel Street. Speaking to TheJournal.ie this evening, John Ryan, the director of studies at DCAS said that the files had been left…
NC: Wake County Public Schools take servers offline after DDoS attack
WRAL reports: Officials with the Wake County Public School System said Wednesday that they took dozens of school websites offline after a server was hit by hackers. The attack happened several weeks ago on a server that hosts 54 of the 178 websites operated by the school system. WCPSS spokeswoman Lisa Luten said the hack…