I’ve occasionally posted audits of school districts in New York State conducted by the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Yesterday, Comptroller DiNapoli released some new audits yesterday. One of them involved an audit of information technology at the East Quogue Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31,…
Category: Education Sector
Inland Empire Colleges Report E-mail Error May Have Exposed More than 35,000 Students’ Information
Tony Shin and Kelly Goff report: Confidential information about more than 35,000 students enrolled at community colleges in Riverside County may have been compromised, the district said in a letter Monday. The records affected belong to students enrolled during the spring 2014 semester at Riverside City, Norco and Moreno Valley colleges. A database containing information…
Second member of #NullCrew arrested (updated to add complaint)
Following the arrest of a Quebec teen last week in the hacking of a Bell Canada supplier, a second person associated with #NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) has now been arrested. Kim Janssen reports: A hacker who targeted big businesses — including Comcast and Canadian Bell — as well as schools, including the University of Virginia, will face…
Privacy advocate files complaint with FTC over Maricopa County Community College District data breach
The 2013 breach at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona affected approximately 2.5 million faculty, staff, vendors, and students, making it the largest breach involving student information ever reported by a U.S. institution of higher education. A complaint by this privacy advocate alleges violations of the Safeguards Rule. Having researched and reported on breaches for about…
No information security breach found in wake of charter school’s mailer to Jersey City parents
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A Sherman Avenue charter school did not access the Jersey City school system’s computers to obtain personal information about district students for a mailer, a district official said this afternoon. The school district had been concerned that the METS Charter School obtained the information form the city school data system but an…
Jersey City school district probing apparent data breach involving students’ personal info
Terrence T. McDonald reports: The Jersey City school district is investigating how a Sherman Avenue charter school obtained personal information about district students, data that parents believe the charter school used to mail the students and their parents registration forms last month. Schools Superintendent Marcia V. Lyles revealed some details of the investigation at a…