One of the Brandon University servers was hacked over the Thanksgiving long weekend. Brandon University President Dr. Deborah Poff stated in an email sent to students and administration on the morning of Friday, October 18th that the university had received evidence confirming access by an unauthorized individual of one of the forty servers in the computer…
Category: Education Sector
Update: $380k spent investigating, cleaning up after Ferris State’s online security breach
Brian McVicar reports the costs of the Ferris State University breach covered on this blog in August. A total of $380,000 was spent investigating and providing services for those affected by a data security breach at Ferris State University that put at risk personal information of 62,000 people, according to a university report. The report, obtained through…
California State University at Sacramento employees are being notified of hack involving their SSN
Derek Shore reports: The personal information of nearly 2,000 Sacramento State employees may have been compromised after a computer system was breached. News of the August breach is just trickling out. It took the university about a month to figure out the scope of the breach and are only this week reaching out to affected…
CO: Pueblo Community College student privacy breach revealed
Student records from Pueblo Community College, including Social Security numbers, were found by a Pueblo woman in a box of office supplies purchased at a South Side yard sale last summer in Pueblo. Read more on Pueblo Chieftain (sub. req. for full access).
U. of Arizona law school notifying over 9,000 former students and applicants whose SSN may have been accessed by hacker
You won’t find it on their home page, but if you dig into the U. of Arizona‘s web site, you’ll find this notice, posted today: Personal information of certain former law students and applicants to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law may have been exposed after being stored on a server…
Third-party vendor sends UVa emails to wrong addresses
Even when you don’t disclose personal information, you may get a bad reputation if your vendor sends email to the wrong parties, as this incident suggests: An email intended for applicants to a new online program at the University of Virginia instead was sent by a third-party vendor to a marketing list of people with…