As it has done with other school districts, the NYS Comptroller’s Office has released its audit of Information Technology for the Port Jefferson Union Free School District. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31, 2013. Here’s a snippet from their report findings: The Board and District officials need to improve controls…
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Seattle University notifies students after learning of possible information exposure
Seattle University was contacted by a student who discovered that permissions for some folders in the university’s Microsoft Exchange folder system had been set incorrectly, allowing anyone with a university email address to gain access to the files in those folders. The university reports that 628 current and former students had personal information in those…
Iowa State IT staff discover unauthorized access to servers
Posted by Iowa State earlier today: Information technology staff at Iowa State University have discovered a breach affecting five departmental servers on campus. An extensive analysis has revealed the compromised servers contained Social Security numbers of 29,780 students enrolled at Iowa State between 1995 and 2012. There’s no evidence any of the data files were…
UK: Confidential records mistakenly sent to all students at Penryn College
Penryn College has apologised “unreservedly” after accidentally emailing confidential pupil details to all students. A weekly summary of all students’ commendations and behaviour incidents was sent before the start of the Easter holidays. Read more on The Packet. h/t Jon Baines
Another lawsuit filed against Maricopa County Community College District over massive breach
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News reports that another lawsuit has been filed against Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) following a data breach it disclosed in November 2013 (search MCCCD for all previous coverage on this blog). This latest lawsuit was reportedly filed by Jason Liebich, a current student at Phoenix College. It was filed in…
University of Virginia, Spokeo, Indiana among eight more sites hacked by NullCrew (update1)
Students and employees of the University of Virginia (UVa) may be scratching their heads today and wondering what UVa can or will do to secure its servers better. The university, which was hacked in 2012 by @AnonAntidote and again in 2013 by a former UVa student known as @R00tTh3B0x, has reportedly been hacked yet again –…