Ashleigh Rodriguez reports: The Socorro Independent School District spent $8,000 this weekend, cleaning up a number of Eastlake High computers. A student downloaded malware, or a malicious program to the school’s computer system. […] After spending the weekend checking 1,000 computers, they found out he had only infected 16. Reyna said he was attempting to…
Category: Education Sector
Georgia Tech student hacks Georgia’s computers, gets pretrial diversion
Tom Fornelli reports that the student who hacked into the U. of Georgia system to rib them over a football rivalry has escaped what could have been 15 years in prison for a felony: Ryan Gregory Pickren, a 21-year old student at Georgia Tech, had some fun at Georgia’s expense before the two teams played in…
NY: Teen accused of hacking high school, improving grades (updated)
Frank Rosario, Erin Calabrese and Natalie O’Neill report: A tech-savvy Staten Island high-school student who studied advanced computer programming at an NYU camp used his skills to hack into a secure computer system and improve his scores, sources told The Post Thursday. Eric Walstrom, 16, a junior at New Dorp HS, made it past a…
No longer gagged by law enforcement stay, Kaplan University begins notifying students of breach (updated)
On June 4, 2014, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General, Criminal Investigative Division notified Kaplan University (KU) that a former KU employee had stolen some students’ information, but placed a stay on notifying the affected students because of the criminal investigation. That stay was lifted this month, and KU began notifying affected students…
NC: Lost thumb drive had personal info of 5,300 former Pitt Community College students
WITN reports: Thousands of former Pitt Community College students could have their personal information at risk after the college says a computer thumb drive was lost. PCC says some 5,300 full names, social security numbers, and addresses of the former students were on the drive that was lost January 21st.. Rick Owens, vice president of…
Lawsuit filed over Shorter University data theft
And so it begins… A potential class-action lawsuit against Shorter University has been filed by a former student who became a victim of identity theft/tax refund fraud following the theft of records last year. Reports of identity theft related to tax refund fraud started emerging in February, and as of last week, there were over 30 reports….