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…
Category: Education Sector
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…
TeamGhostShell posts “master list” of 548 leaks (so far)
From a paste today that contains this note from the hackers: (Reminder: If you want to help get them patch then please report the vulnerabilities) 1000knigi.mon.gov.mk – M1: http://dpaste.com/2X4DE5K M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/b872164eff M3: http://hastebin.com/geyavowama.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/RPG4 austlang.aiatsis.gov.au – M1: http://dpaste.com/3K0JSH6 M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/180a M3: http://hastebin.com/inorukinep.md M4: https://dpaste.de/uij2 blr.dole.gov.ph – M1: http://dpaste.com/2KZ5VDM M2: http://ixmr.kpaste.net/cdc38 M3: http://hastebin.com/vacifufiwe.1c M4: https://dpaste.de/o9g4…
MO: Man acquitted of Washington University-related hacking claims
Robert Patrick reports: A former Washington University employee was acquitted Wednesday of federal computer fraud charges that claimed he’d downloaded protected financial information related to the school’s endowment. David Shen, 45, of New Jersey, was manager of asset allocation and risk management for the Washington University Investment Management Company. Read more on St. Louis Post-Dispatch.