Granite State College in New Hampshire is notifying three New Hampshire residents because an employee fell for a phishing scheme and some employee information, including compensation, was sent to a gmail account. You can read their notification here.
Category: Education Sector
Washington State U. notifies employees and students that SSN and financial info were on stolen drives
Bill McKee of Daily News reported this breach last week: More than 300 employees, former employees and students at Washington State University are receiving letters in the mail informing them they may have had personal information compromised when hard drives were stolen from an on-campus office last month. WSU Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen confirmed…
NY: Sachem School District has student data leak (update1)
Michael Sorrentino reports: Leaked student records are allegedly now available on a website that may be the source of Sachem Central School District’s Friday announcement that internal district information has been posted onto a local message board. The website is the one referred to Patch by resident Stephanie Volpe, who posted screenshots of it Friday morning after…
JP: University private info left open to public access
Some Japanese universities found out the hard way about the risks of networked multifunction printers: Personal information on students and other university members, which is read by and stored in all-in-one machines at the University of Tokyo and two other universities, was left accessible to the public via the Internet, it has been learned. The…
North Georgia Tech Students Asked to be Alert After Possible Security Breach
David Stephens reports: Maybe not the way some college students wanted to start off the month of November, as North Georgia Technical College is advising some students to keep a close eye on their credit reports – that after one of their student data bases may have been breached. According to college spokesperson Sandra Maughon,…
The Michigan State University Police Department is investigating an attempted theft of employee direct-deposit payroll earnings
eSecurity Planet just made me aware of a breach disclosed earlier this week: Posted by the Michigan State University Police on October 20: On Friday, October 18, two employees reported receiving email confirmation of a change in their direct-deposit designation. Police say that valid credentials (MSU NetID and password) were used by a perpetrator to…