Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Bryant T. Johnson, aged 26, of Albany, Georgia entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on June 17, 2015 before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U. S. District Court Judge,…
Category: Education Sector
Calgary teen charged in public school board student data hack
Erika Tucker reports: A 15-year-old Calgary teen has been arrested and charged with hacking into public school board servers between November 2014 and March 2015. The teen allegedly hacked into the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) servers using phishing e-mails and credentials. Police say once in the server, he accessed corporate and personal information, but wouldn’t…
Shorter University data breach lawsuit advances
Oops – found this one sitting in drafts folder. I should have posted it two weeks ago. Law360 reports: A Georgia federal judge on Thursday trimmed breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation claims from a proposed putative class action over the theft of student medical data at a state university, but refused to let the…
NH: Stolen laptop contained student information from Monadnock Regional School District
On June 5, Monadnock Regional School District nofitied the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop stolen from an employee’s residence contained unencrypted information on 54 students. The employee was authorized to take work home. Reading further into the letter, however, it appears that the laptop was stolen from the employee’s vehicle, not their…
San Luis Obispo County Community College District notifies employees of breach
On May 31st, Cuesta College sent a notification letter to employees, a copy of which was provided to the California Attorney General’s Office. It reads, in part: It has come to the attention of the San Luis Obispo County Community College District (“the District”) that on May 31, 2015 a District employee gained unauthorized access to the District’s employee database…
Ca: Algonquin College server hacked but no data taken, college says
CBC News reported: A server hack at Algonquin College in Ottawa left the personal information of more than 1,000 former students vulnerable but no data was taken, according to the college. A news release issued on Friday said 1,225 students in the Bachelor of Information Technology and Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs are affected. Well,…