Emily Longnecker reports: The personal information of nearly 200,000 people is at risk after hackers recently targeted Butler University. This data breach exposed around 163,000 people, including faculty, staff, alumni, current students and even one-time prospective students who never actually wound up attending the university. Butler officials say they have reached out to those who were…
Category: Education Sector
‘Possible data security breach’ at College of the Desert
Brett Kelman reports that College of the Desert has had a second breach this month, this one involving student financial information. The college says that less than 10 students were affected by what it describes as a “possible data security breach.” Approximately 1900 employees were affected by an earlier breach this month. COD officials on Thursday did…
FL: Hernando college student charged with hacking accounts
Kathryn Varn reports: Pasco-Hernando State College student Amanda Yost blamed her boyfriend when she noticed that emails went missing on her account with the learning management website the school uses. He liked to play World of Warcraft on her Asus laptop, and Yost, 20, thought the game had introduced a virus. But after a multiweek investigation,…
MS: USM looking into possible identity theft by staff member
Associated Press reports that the University of Southern Mississippi is investigating allegations that an employee accessed personal information of other employees on the Hattiesburg campus. The employee has resigned.
University of California, Washington Center notifies alumni of vendor breach
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) recently notified alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. As a result of the June 7 attack on UCDC’s cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com, alumni’s usernames, postal and email addresses, passwords, gender, date of birth, and courses taken were accessed. The breach was discovered on June 9. The…
CO: Summit School District corrects security breach that leaked student information
The Summit Daily reports: Last week Summit School District officials discovered a security issue that made some student and parent information available online. […] The information the parent found came from an internal student data file the district used for automated calls to parents about their children’s negative food account balances. The file contained the…