Maura Lerner reports: Metro State University is investigating a computer security breach that may have exposed personal information about students, faculty and staff. In a campuswide e-mail Friday, interim president Devinder Malhotra wrote that a computer hacker apparently got “unauthorized access” to the university database in mid-December, and that investigators are still trying to determine…
Category: Education Sector
GA: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen hacker
Donna Lowry reports: Fulton County School officials are investigating a teen who they believe hacked into his teachers’ emails for nine months. The district sent home a letter today to parents of students at North Springs Charter High School telling them that last year, a student gained access to the email login information for 21…
5 Colleges With Data Breaches Larger Than Sony’s in 2014
Kyle McCarthy points out that there were at least five colleges that had breaches larger than Sony’s breach in 2014. So he made a list? Why is there absolutely NO mention of the fact that no federal agency enforces data security in the education sector? Isn’t THAT the bigger atory?
U. of Hawaii and Cornell University hacked by @MarxistAttorney
Add the University of Hawaii and Cornell University to the universities that have been hacked by @MarxistAttorney. The U. of Hawaii data dump, which DataBreaches.net is not linking to, does not contain student or employee personal information, but in addition to acquiring the root username/password, “Attorney” also got the mac addresses, service tags, usernames and more…
UK: North East school website hacked
I can’t remember whether I’ve ever seen parents keep their children home from school as a result of a school web site defacement, but that’s what happened in Yorkshire when the defacement suggested an Islamist group. Kenny Toal reports: A local authority has advised all public bodies and organisations to make sure their security software…
Universities hacked, data dumped by @MarxistAttorney (Update4)
There’s someone else I need to follow, as he/they seems to be hacking a number of universities and colleges. In a post on Pastebin yesterday, @MarxistAttorney (web site) claimed a number of hacks, including, California State University, University of Kentucky, University of Connecticut, University of Maryland, Coastal Carolina University, and Abertay University. For each entity, there…