CKWS TV reports: The Limestone District School Board’s information technology department is trying to find out how a folder with personal information on staff became public – albeit for a short period of time. The information concerns all current board employees and past employees back to 2001. A memo to all staff – obtained by…
Category: Education Sector
AU: Ivanhoe Grammar under fire for exposing former students in email about alleged sex offenses
Ashley Argoon and Kathryn Powley report: Ivanhoe Grammar School has come under further fire after identifying alumni in an email about alleged historic sex offences against a student. In a potential breach of privacy, the posh school revealed the private email addresses of 1000 past students to whom it wrote offering counselling services after veteran…
WA: Student hacker disables hundreds of email accounts
KOMO News reports that an unnamed high school student who attends Oak Harbor High School is in trouble for disabling hundreds of email accounts throughout the Oak Harbor School District. “This individual inappropriately obtained passwords to certain accounts,” said Kellie Tormey, Oak Harbor School District. A somewhat surprising aspect to the report is a statement by an…
“University of Racism” hacked; will others go after U. of Oklahoma student records?
“Because none of them seem to give a shit…” – a hacker commenting on the lack of response to notifying the U. of Oklahoma that he had hacked them. This blogger has repeatedly lamented the generally inadequate data security in the education sector and the fact that no federal agency actually enforces data security at the post-secondary…
Texas A&M Data Breach of Nearly 4,700 Faculty & Graduate Assistants
KBTX reports: The social security numbers for 4,697 faculty and graduate assistants who taught during the Fall 2014 semester at Texas A&M University were viewable from a department website. The social security numbers were inadvertently displayed along with the individual’s first and last name in the Fall 2014 Semester Teaching Analysis Report (STAR). Upon discovering…
Some IT staff at Victor Valley College return to work while security protocol breach investigation continues
There’s an update to the somewhat puzzling news report that the entire IT staff of Victor Valley College had been been placed on paid administrative leave while “a breach in security protocol” was being investigated. Brooke Self reports: Three of seven Information Technology employees who were placed on paid administrative leave in late January after Victor Valley College’s…