AP reports: Accounts used by South Florida college students to receive financial aid were used in a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said Tuesday that 21 people have been charged, most of them current or former students at Miami Dade College. The students were using…
Category: Education Sector
FL: Nova Southeastern University law students’ data hacked in spring 2013
Through their lawyers, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Texas notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they learned of a data security incident that involved potential access to a server that contained former law students’ personal information, including names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, NSU identification numbers, and Social Security…
AU: Schoolgirl hacked pupil files
Bethany Hiatt reports: An elite Perth girls school is reviewing its digital security after a student hacked into pupils’ confidential information that was visible only to teachers and distributed it using social media. Presbyterian Ladies’ College principal Beth Blackwood confirmed yesterday that a Year 10 student hacked the Peppermint Grove school’s computer database and accessed…
Seattle Public Schools fires law firm after their failure to redact exposed thousands of students’ records (Updated)
Heather Graf reports that Seattle Public Schools has notified parents of approximately 8,000 students of a breach involving their records. Most of the students involved are special education students. According to King5 News, the notification states, in part: “Late Tuesday night Seattle Public Schools learned that a law firm retained by the district to handle…
UK: Staffordshire University stolen laptop had student contacts details
BBC reports: A laptop containing the personal details of 125,000 potential and current students at Staffordshire University has been stolen. A member of staff took the computer home where it was stolen from a car. The data included the address, telephone number and email details for applicants dating back to 2006. The university said the…
Privacy breach at U. of Toronto
Alex McKeen reports: On October 29, some students received e-mails from the University of Toronto enrollment services indicating that they were awarded funding through University of Toronto Advanced Planning for Students (UTAPS) only to find that they had also been sent 179 files containing sensitive information that was not theirs. […] The 179 files that…