Koh Seok-Seung reports: The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that it has arrested a 20-year-old college student yesterday on the suspicion of hacking 104 websites across 24 countries in a bid to show off his technical prowess. The student, surnamed Jang, collected 280,000 pieces of information from November 2013 to August by hacking various…
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AL: Records containing minor’s sensitive information were publicly available through Birmingham City Schools website
Madison Underwood reports that hundreds of records containing minor’s sensitive information – names, birthdates, phone numbers and more – were publically available online at a website operated by Birmingham City Schools. Read more on AL.com. Would this be a good time to remind everyone that Alabama is one of only a few states that does not…
Tutor Pleads Not Guilty In Orange County School Hacker Scandal
Associated Press reports: A tutor at the center of an alleged high school grade-changing scandal has pleaded not guilty to computer fraud and commercial burglary. The Orange County Register says Timothy Lance Lai entered pleas Tuesday to five felony counts and faces up to five years and eight months in prison if convicted. Read more…
TX: Investigation reveals student records from Whitehouse ISD stolen from Louisiana archival service
Ashley Slayton reports: The FBI is investigating a theft of student records at Whitehouse Independent School District. Read more on KLTV A statement prominently linked from the district’s homepage says, in part: PRESS RELEASE: ATTENTION TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2011 AND CLASS OF 2012 Whitehouse Independent School District has received notification from…
Security breach pushes Cumberland Valley officials to move up plans for network audit
Tricia Kline reports an update to a breach reported in August: The Cumberland Valley School Board has approved a $43,000 contract for a security audit of the district computer network following a security breach that was discovered in August. Before the breach occurred, CV spokeswoman Tracy Panzer said, the district was planning to budget a security audit…
ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach
Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…